Prosthetic culture : photography, memory and identity / / Celia Lury

• Autore: Lury Celia
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Photography - Philosophy; Images, Photographic; Self (Philosophy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-238) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; PROSTHETIC CULTURE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 IDENTITY AND PROSTHETIC CULTURE; 2 THE EXPERlMENTAL INDIVIDUAL; 3 THE FAMILY OF MAN; 4 BECOME WHAT YOU ARE; 5 REMEMBER ME; 6 SEEING YOU, SEEING ME, SEEING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY; 7 MOVEMENT AND THE BODY OF PHOTOGRAPHY; 8 HUMANS, NON-HUMANS AND HEROES; 9 THE ETHICS OF SEEING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 alb
• Altri titoli varianti: Photography, memory and identity
• Titolo autorizzato: Prosthetic culture
• ISBN: 1-134-85102-2; 0-203-30044-0; 1-134-85103-0; 1-280-32014-1; 9786610320141; 0-203-42525-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170998403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International Library of Sociology