Prosthetic Culture

Name: Prosthetic Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415102940
Price: 11100 KES
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ISBN: 9780415102940

by Celia Lury

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series International Library of Sociology

ISBN-10 0415102944

ISBN-13 9780415102940

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 4th, 1997

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 453 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.80 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Cultural studies Cultural studies Anthropology

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Celia Lury describes the body's ability to act outside itself both mechanically and perceptually. She draws on a wide range of examples including phototherapy, accounts of false memory syndrome, family albums and Benetton adverts.

In a fascinating account of how technology is altering our consciousness, Celia Lury shows how the manipulation of photographic images and ways of seeing can so redefine the relation between consciousness, the body and memory as to create a ''prosthetic culture'' whose capacities both extend and threaten our humanity.
We live in a society in which some memories can be falsely implanted in the individual while others are stored in video archives of images, in which the powers of cartoon superheroes break through the limitations of time and space. Using the examples of photo-therapy, family albums, Benetton advertising campaigns, the phenomenon of false memory syndrome and the ''lives'' of cartoon characters this book argues that the ''eyes'' made available by contemporary visual technologies involve not simply specific ways of seeing, but also ways of life.

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