THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE FROM A POSTHUMAN PRESENT TO A BIOCULTURAL FUTURE --------------------------~-------------------------------------- ' co : >.... I >.... I 0 ' L : I <L> : C • c : oC0 :I ) ' I "'O : C • co : ..c : ·.Eµ :I : (/) "'O : cI..o... I I ::J : 2": co : L : ..>0,:II "'O : (l) I .µ : :0 : <L> : f'~ntri9ufn_g_ -anci-cieli9iiifui.--.-~ -.: I I :rogether, these essays offer real: I I I I :insight into what it means to be: I I I I :human in a pervasively mechanical: I I ~~9~19:_ -:!!:~_f=LJ_~!~S! __ --------, I I I I 1 THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE FROM A POSTHUMAN PRESENT TO A BIOCULTURAL FUTURE Edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra The MIT Prcs~ Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 0 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or 1nechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in wriring from che publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased ac special quanrity di~counc~ for business or sales pro motional use. For information, please e-mail <[email protected]> or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Cemer. Cambridge. MA 02142. This book was set in Bcmbo by Graphic Composition, Inc. . and was printed and bound in the United States. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publiairion Data The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman pn.-scnt to a biocultural future I edited by Marquard Smith and Joa1me Morra p. cm. Includes bibliographjcaJ references and index. ISBN 0-262-19530-5 (he : alk. paper) 1. Body, Human-Socia] aspects. 2. Body, Hu111an-Tccl111ological innovations. 3. Pros thesis-Technological innovations. 4. Medical innovatiom. I. Smith, Marquard. 11. Morra, Joanne. GN298.P76 2006 306.4-dc22 10 9 8 7 6 4 2 CONTENTS Acknowledgmems---vii Introduction Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra--1 1 Carnality: Detween Phenomenology and the Biocultural 2 A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality Vivian Sobchack---17 3 The Vulnerable Arriculate:James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney Marquard Smith --43 4 The Physiology of Art Alphonso Lingis---73 5 Stumped by Genes: U11g11a Garaca, ONA, and Prosthesis Lennard J. Davis--91 6 The Bug's Body: A Disappearing Act Gary Genosko --107 7 On the Subject of Neural and Sensory Prostheses Lisa Cartwright and Brian Goldfarb--- 125 8 Disability, Masculinity, and the Prosthetics of War, 1945 to 2005 David Serlin--155 11 Assembling: I1 1ternalization. Externalization 9 Naked Elizabeth Grosz --187 vi--- CONTENTS 10 Visual Technologies as Cognitive Prostheses: A Short History of the Externalization of the Mind Lev Manovich---203 II Prosthetists at 33;{ Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz---221 12 Techneology or the Discourse of Speed David Wi!Js---237 13 Drawing Machine: Working through the Materiality of Rauschenberg's Dante and Derrida's Freud Joanne Morra---265 List of Contributors---289 lndex--293 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We extend our deepest thanks to the contributors to 771e Prosthetic /111p11/se: From a Postli11111t111 Prese11t to a Biowlt11ml F11111re for their enthusiasm, generosiry, humor, and commitment to this project. This book has been a long time in coming, so we arc grateful for their stamina and their considered, provocative, and enduring thoughts. It's been a pleasure. Thanks also to Boris Belay, Steve Connor, Joanna Delorme at Galilee, Kate Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Katherine Ott, Norris Pope at Stanford Universiry Press, Vivian Rehberg, Avita! Ronell, Jeffrey Shaw, Sandy Stone, Rosemarie Garland Thomson, and Ben Watson. Thanks to the excellent advice from our anonymous referees, and finally to Roger Conover and Lisa Reeve, and Deborah Cantor-Adams, Susan Clark, and Emily Gutheinz for their faith in this project and their encouragement from be ginning to end. ---vii THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE