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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 509–511.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Nina Lykke [email protected] Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment , by Margrit Shildrick , London, Bloomsbury , 2022 , 262 pages, $39.92 (paperback), ISBN 9781350224940 . $103.94 (hardcover), ISBN 9781350176492 . Copyright © 2024 by Duke...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 207–228.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of technicity, technical prostheses, and technological development. It may be interesting to note that the first volume of Technics and Time , subtitled The Fault of Epimetheus , was published in the very same year as Derrida's Specters of Marx and, while it contains only brief and rather allusive...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 383–388.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of the very first texts to trace the colonization of senses and bodies by technology. Jünger was not so prescient as to anticipate recent insights into the co-evolution of humans and technology, but he had a clear understanding of the feedback between technical prostheses and the violent technologizing...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., space, sound, and light empirically but must refer to complex technological prostheses and their methods of representing such information to us in images, signs, and language we believe we can understand and interpret. Yet what is it that we are reading, understanding, and interpreting? As Virilio...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Vortex reflects this technological alienation, the Power-Station Killer removing the organs of his victims and replacing them with machine parts and makeshift prostheses with the intention of reanimating the corpse after death, the whole system of this eerie cyborg to be controlled by a code stored...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 376–388.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the goal of media theory to probe how these extensions affected human sense ratios. Instead, it was deemed necessary to first study the internal operations and evolution of technology before addressing the secondary question of how media affected senses and society. Media, in short, were neither prostheses...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 145–162.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., then it can only be because Dasein is also the being who is thrown into question—by technics, that is, by the prostheses that transform its form of life. Unlike Heidegger, he concludes that if it is technics that produces the problems forcing Dasein itself into question, then it is also, for pharmacological...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 July 2015
... prostheses and objects” (239) invested in the domiciliary, the sedentary, and other states of permanence. Rewriting modernity, Lyotard underlines, is a process of “working through,” a working through of meanings and events that have been hidden by origins, history, objectifications of first causes...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2017
... you come to expect from him is on display: Lacanian asides; questionable techno-historical tidbits (see note 5); arcane literary references; ingenious jump cuts; the pillorying of everyone who argues that media are tools, extensions, or prostheses of the human; not to mention the inflationary use...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... social life; they actually constitute sociability. The proposed transformation of Aristotelian megalopsychia has to take into account the constitutive workings of mediological extensions or prostheses (NG: 361). How does second nature become first (SIII: 809)? After the initial “illness...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in historical and contemporary discourses of the environment and ecology. This woman's sexuality both attracts and repels us. The pleasure she experiences connects her with a proliferant background of waving, whiplike grasses. The tree's spreading root-fingers are presented as anthropomorphized prostheses...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 174–197.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the Republic” ( Carpentier 1976 : 141). The Cuban surrealist capitalized each part of the woman’s oversized body to lampoon the fragmentary and self-aggrandizing aesthetic of the regime. The scattered prostheses that were the performative strategies of the Cuban state became fodder for political satire...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of obesity would thus have to index not only the large humans and their economic-cultural prostheses (agribusiness, snack-food vending machines, insulin injections, bariatric surgery, serving sizes, systems of food marketing and distribution, microwave ovens) but also the strivings and trajectories of fats...
