256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 IDENTITY AND PROSTHETIC CULTURE; Chapter 2 THE EXPERIMENTAL INDIVIDUAL; Chapter 3 THE FAMILY OF MAN; Chapter 4 BECOME WHAT YOU ARE; Chapter 5 REMEMBER ME; Chapter 6 SEEING YOU, SEEING ME, SEEING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY; Chapter 7 MOVEMENT AND THE BODY OF PHOTOGRAPHY; Chapter 8 HUMANS, NON-HUMANS AND HEROES; Chapter 9 THE ETHICS OF SEEING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
Biography
Celia Lury is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
