Name: Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment
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Author: Rosi Braidotti
ISBN: 9781350224940

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Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment

Type

Physical Book

Author

Margrit Shildrick

Illustrated by

Rosi Braidotti

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.6x1.5 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781350224940

Synopsis "Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment"

In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very notion of what counts as human, this open access book proposes new understandings of the limits and possible extensions of posthuman embodiment. Focusing on prostheses, Margrit Shildrick broadens our understanding of both what prostheses are and what they might mean for human embodiment. As well as rehabilitation devices used by disabled people to replace or augment impaired parts of the body, Shildrick introduces visceral organic prostheses, which involve any cellular material that cannot be identified with the self, from organ transplantation to the physiological processes of microchimerism and the microbiome. Beyond origin narratives that concentrate on 'host' and 'guest' and 'self' and 'other', she examines the transformative possibilities that prostheses offer as they extend the nature of the embodied self beyond genetic singularity. Building on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in critical disability studies, transplantation studies, and bioscience, Visceral Prostheses argues that bodies with prostheses in whatever form should no longer be understood as irregular forms of normative embodiment, but as limit cases of a common experience. In doing so, it challenges the western understanding of the singular self and welcomes a new understanding of the human. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Rosi Braidotti

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Rosi Braidotti es una filósofa feminista de la tradición continental; profesora universitaria emérita distinguida de la Universidad de Utrecht (Países Bajos) y profesora honoraria del Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Posee títulos en filosofía de la ANU y de la Sorbona, así como doctorados honoris causa de las universidades de Helsinki (2007) y Linköping (2013). Es miembro honorario de la Academia Australiana de Humanidades (FAHA) y miembro de la Academia Europaea. En 2022 recibió el Premio de Investigación Humboldt por su contribución académica a lo largo de su trayectoria. Sus publicaciones principales incluyen: *Nomadic Subjects* (2011a) y *Nomadic Theory* (2011b), de Columbia University Press; *The Posthuman* (2013), *Posthuman Knowledge* (2019) y *Posthuman Feminism* (2022), de Polity Press; y *The Posthuman Glossary* (2018) y *More Posthuman Glossary* (2022), de Bloomsbury Academic.

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