Prosthesis (Volume 64) (Posthumanities)

Wills, David

ISBN 10: 1517911559 / ISBN 13: 9781517911553

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2021

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Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prosthesis (Volume 64) (Posthumanities)
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517911559
• ISBN 13: 9781517911553
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects

Prosthesis is a landmark work in posthuman thought that analyzes and explores the human body as a technology, seamlessly integrated (both physically and psychologically) with prosthetics.  Here David Wills lays the groundwork for ideas he develops in two of his other books, Dorsality, exploring how technology functions behind or before the human, and Inanimation, giving perspective on what it means to be “alive.” 

In Prosthesis, Wills promotes the idea that the human body is open to supplementation by artificial addenda that operate both internally or externally and engage it in an unceasing arbitration with the environment. Questioning the opposition between animate and inanimate along with the logic of the automatic prioritization of living flesh, Prosthesis undertakes these assumptions by studying thematics of artificiality through the writings of Freud, Derrida, William Gibson, Peter Greenaway, and others. In the twenty-five years since its first publication, Prosthesis has been a point of reference in the field of disability studies. It has also been recognized for its “prosthetic” writing, consisting of academic and autobiographical voices and styles that are artificially attached to one another. 

About the Author

David Wills is professor of French studies at Brown University. He is author of six books and has translated six works by Jacques Derrida, including a new version of Glas, published as Clang by Minnesota in 2020.