We live in a soceity in which body parts are components in a global traffic of goods, in which some memories can be falsely implanted in the individual, while others are stored outside the individual in video archives. It is the body'a ability to act outside itself both mechanically and perceptually in this way which Celia Lury describes as prosthetic culture. Using examples drawn from phototherapy, accounts of false memory syndrome, family albums, Benetton ads and the lives of cartoon characters, the author argues that the eyes made available by contemporary visual technologies involve not...
We live in a soceity in which body parts are components in a global traffic of goods, in which some memories can be falsely implanted in the individua...
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...
In a fascinating account of how technology is altering our consciousness, Celia Lury shows how the manipulation of photographic images and ways of see...
