Prostheticization

The prostheticization of everyday life extends to the use of computers as memory machines, although other more mundane artefacts, such as photographs, play a similar role - as portrayed in the film Blade Runner, what we think we know of our own past may in fact be prostheticized (Landsberg 2000).... for Aristotle as for us all our embodied selves do not decisively end in our skins, but spread out into and are definitively impinged upon by the world, by artifice and by the ritual artifice of normative culture.  This urban prostheticization of Aristotle’s political/rational animal does not and did not make human animals into some kind of “posthuman species,” of all things, but defined instead the inaugural moment (a fable, of course) when humanity stepped onto the scene of history.  More to the point, this prostheticization names the abiding material reality of humanity in a world of technodevelopmental social struggle among a plurality of stakeholders who are our peers.  [Carrico, 2006]See: prosthetic; Cyborg; 
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