Cecilia Lury is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster. She is the author of Cultural Rights (Routledge, 1993).
发表于2024-12-29
Prosthetic Culture 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: Photography 记忆 社会 欧美 文化认同 摄影 english Theory
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 albums, Benetton advertising campaigns, the phenomenon of false memory syndrome and the 'lives' of cartoon characters this book argues that the 'eyes' made available by contemporary visual technologies involve not simply specific ways of seeing, but also ways of life.
Prosthetic Culture 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书