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In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense. Those who have undergone this procedure are highly esteemed in the new society. But they have a problem - their prosthetics require a rare metal to function, and international tensions are rising over which countries get the right to mine it ...
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Jane Austen’s Persuasion: Finding Companionate Marriage through Sickness and Health
In Jane Austen’s last novel Persuasion (1817), embodiment and disability function metonymically to show the emotional suffering of its characters. Austen gives temporary impairments to the novel’s protagonists, Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, and physical disabilities to minor characters who suffer actual and metaphorical falls, such as Louisa Musgrove and Mrs. Smith. In Persuasion, Austen evokes pain and suffering in both mental and physical ways, with men, like Wentworth, experiencing mental impairments and women, like Anne, Louisa, and Mrs. Smith, experiencing physical impairments. Austen uses impairments, illness, and disability as prostheses to highlight the importance of a marriage of respect, affection, and rationality.
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The running dream
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
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A study in honor
Set in a near future Washington, DC, this novel offers a feminist twist on Sherlock Holmes, in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes unmask a murderer.
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Transmedialitatea în Zona De Interes: Martin Amis şi Jonathan Glazer
New ways of experiencing trauma, history, and memory have employed affect as a tool to enhance the instructive nature of transmedial representations of the Holocaust: literary fiction, sites of memory, and film. In the absence of direct contact with such “limit situations”, the transfer from individual memory to collective and cultural memory occurs through “mass technologies”, constituting what Alison Landsberg termed “prosthetic memory”. In the case of cinema, the medium dramatizes the past. It is capable of adapting the viewers’ perspectives by offering not merely a historical narrative, but a personal experience to which they naturally had no access. Performativity involves the abstraction of discourse through what Vivian Sobchack calls “structures of direct experience”, which have the capacity to suggest the sensation of the real (movement, hearing, sight). This paper will discuss the effects produced by the transmediality of two artifacts of prosthetic memory in the context of adapting the novel The Zone of Interest (2014) into Jonathan Glazer’s homonymous film (2023). It will compare the effects of these two forms and analyze the strategies through which cinematic and literary expressions engage with one another and with traumatic memory.
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Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction
This essay focuses on the representational relationship between disability and Islamic fundamentalism in select contemporary postcolonial literary texts by Arab authors. The essay draws mainly on critical disability theory on the concept of prosthesis to argue that disability functions as a narrative and emotional prosthesis to narratives on Islamic fundamentalism at the same time as it lays bare this very process of instrumentalisation. To this end the essay asks: What are the privileged affects that attach themselves to representations of disability in fictions of Islamic fundamentalism? How do textual and affective prostheses emerge out of, or feed back into, Islamist contexts, worldviews and subjectivities? Finally, in what ways do the narratives under analysis uphold, lay bare or dismantle such prosthetic functions of the disabled body? In particular, this essay focuses on three specific prostheses of disability in the texts: conversion narratives, contemporary histories of Islamic fundamentalist violence and the figure of the disabled Islamist.
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Claudia Bucher in Five Movements: Extended Sentience
For close to four decades, Claudia Bucher’s “scientart” has created myriad experiential habitats for her performing body, while inviting others to join her imaginary leaps. From personifying an outer-space lichen colony to meditating midair as an “anemochore kite,” Bucher demonstrates empathic kinships with other beings and nonbeings, calling forth alternative eco-systems in which sentience thrives as the common denominator for all inhabitants.
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What blindness can tell us about seeing again: merging neuroplasticity and neuroprostheses
Significant progress has been made in the development of visual neuroprostheses to restore vision in blind individuals. Appropriate delivery of electrical stimulation to intact visual structures can evoke patterned sensations of light in those who have been blind for many years. However, success in developing functional visual prostheses requires an understanding of how to communicate effectively with the visually deprived brain in order to merge what is perceived visually with what is generated electrically.
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