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... Kang Seung Lee prosthetic memory biopolitics inhuman chimeracological milieu ...

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... through living succulents, it conceptualizes an emergent mode of prosthetic memory: it blurs the body-technology boundary in what Rachel Lee calls chimeracological milieus, entails inhuman otherness beyond the usual human perception and subjectivity, and has potential to regenerate networks of care...

...The Specters of Cloning Chapter 3 critically examines the common approach to commercial pet cloning as a prosthetics of mourning in the age of genetic reproduction. Interweaving the media representations of an American woman who cloned her late pit bull (and was later identified...

...Mouth to Mouth Opening with stories about tongue surgery performed on children to correct their English accent in contemporary South Korea, chapter 1 revises memories of postcolonial languaging, whose severance from the mother tongue metonymizes its prostheticity. It retheorizes postcolonial...

... unpacked the geopolitical notions of buffer and backyard, and the idea of prosthetic territory—a phantasmatic extension of the national self where dreams and aspirations are mobilized, deployed, and (re)animated—is introduced. phantom pains prosthetics territorial dispute Russia China ...

.... Building out this argument, I introduce readers to the concepts of “infrastructural attachments” and “prosthetic work.” I explain what I see as being the book’s main contributions to: African history, science and technology studies, histories of capitalism, and infrastructure studies. prosthetic work...

... Chapter 3 critically examines the common approach to commercial pet cloning as a prosthetics of mourning in the age of genetic reproduction. Interweaving the media representations of an American woman who cloned her late pit bull (and was later identified as the protagonist of a 1970s “sex...

... Opening with stories about tongue surgery performed on children to correct their English accent in contemporary South Korea, chapter 1 revises memories of postcolonial languaging, whose severance from the mother tongue metonymizes its prostheticity. It retheorizes postcolonial languaging...

... Chapter 5 examines, as a site of prosthetic memories, the connection between the massive use of female animals for their reproductive organs and the scandalous mobilization of women for egg donation in Dr. Woo Suk Hwang’s reproductive and regenerative research in South Korea. It critically...

..., and disposed of in the transnational circuits of advanced technology and neoliberal capitalism. The epilogue also notes this book’s performative-speculative writing on prosthetic memories and the reparative efforts to include affective ties among what appear to be problematic relations and affinities...