Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismStrap-OnBodies? What bodies? The prosthetic reversal colonizes bodies by way of its supplemental technologies. For the Romantics the imperative of proper embodiment normalized. [1] For us the operative logic eradicates. That's Gibson's suggestion, anyway: Case "lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace. . . . The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh." [2] Bodies become prostheses to technologies that enhance them: interchangeable, replaceable, expendable. You are your laptop's sex toy. Notes1. See Paul Youngquist, Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003). 2. William Gibson Neuromancer (New York: Ace, 1984), 6. Navigation |