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Prostheses in the Digital Age. Pecha Kucha ENG 585 Digitial Pedagogy/Research Nick Morris 6 April 2010. The Posthuman. Prosthesis:
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Prostheses in the Digital Age Pecha Kucha ENG 585 Digitial Pedagogy/Research Nick Morris 6 April 2010
Prosthesis: 1553, "addition of a letter or syllable to a word," from L.L., from Gk. prosthesis "addition," from prostithenai "add to," from pros "to" + tithenai "to put, place" (see theme). Meaning "artificial body part" is first recorded 1706. TROPE MATERIAL ARTEFACT
Lev Manovich “Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prostheses: A Short History of the Externalization of the Mind” The Prosthetic Impulse (2006)
Ambroise Paré (1545) Götz von Berlichingen (1504)
Edgar Allen Poe “The Man That Was Used Up” (1839) Ivor Abrahams’ eponymous painting of suit of clothes with no body
CYBERPUNK STEAMPUNK SALVAGEPUNK
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) Apotemnophilia