Contre la désincarnation technique : un corps hybridé ?

Andrieu, Bernard

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“…Conversely, in order to obtain any visible and durable achievements, steady body work is engaged. Although concepts such as ‘techno-body’ (Andrieu, 2007: 35), ‘hybridity’ (Latour, 1993) or ‘anthropotechnie’ (Goffette, 2007) may pertinently describe a variety of technological advancements, boosting epistemological imaginaries, what the current perspectives of both experts and users in rehabilitative robotics show is that despite obvious possibilities of new phenomenologies of the body that exoskeletons open, any symbiosis between one’s impaired body and the device remains a challenge.…”

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Exoskeletons, Rehabilitation and Bodily Capacities

Butnaru

2021

Body & Society

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Motility impairments resulting from spinal cord injuries and cerebrovascular accidents are increasingly prevalent in society, leading to the growing development of rehabilitative robotic technologies, among them exoskeletons. This article outlines how bodies with neurological conditions such as spinal cord injury and stroke engage in processes of re-appropriation while using exoskeletons and some of the challenges they face. The main task of exoskeletons in rehabilitative environments is either to rehabilitate or ameliorate anatomic functions of impaired bodies. In these complex processes, they also play a crucial role in recasting specific corporeal phenomenologies. For the accomplishment of these forms of corporeal re-appropriation, the role of experts is crucial. This article explores how categories such as bodily resistance, techno-inter-corporeal co-production of bodies and machines, as well as body work mark the landscape of these contemporary forms of impaired corporeality. While defending corporeal extension rather than incorporation, I argue against the figure of the ‘cyborg’ and posit the idea of ‘residual subjectivity’.

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confidence: 99%