Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismChrist on a CrutchEver been injured? Ever used a crutch? How did it alter your stance? The prosthesis disturbs your body's relation to the world. Its boundaries are breeched. You suffer corporeal dislocation. [1] David Wills ponders the implications of this violation, this violence: "By means of prosthesis the relation to the other becomes precisely and necessarily a relation to otherness, the otherness, for example, of artificiality attached to or found within the natural." [2] Artifice breeches the life organic. Do Wordsworthians dream of electric sheep? Notes1. The sacred scripture of this experience is, of course, J.G. Ballard's Crash (New York: Vintage, 1975). 2. David Wills Prosthesis (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995), 44. Navigation |