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Porter, Chloe; Walter, Katie L.; Healy, Margaret

doi:10.4324/9781315105734-101

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“…Representatives of these fields offer an understanding of prosthesis that derives from the common idea of a “replacement of defective or absent parts of the body by artificial substitutes (…). In surgery prosthesis is taken for that which fills up what is wanting, as is to be seen in fistulous and hollow ulcers, filled up with flesh by that art: also the making of artificial legs and arms, when the natural ones are lost” (Porter et al., 2018: 1). Porter and others suggest that the prosthesis “invites us to explore the intersection between the language and material, embodied and imagined worlds” (Porter et al., 2018: 2).…”

Section: Archaeological Prosthesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In surgery prosthesis is taken for that which fills up what is wanting, as is to be seen in fistulous and hollow ulcers, filled up with flesh by that art: also the making of artificial legs and arms, when the natural ones are lost” (Porter et al., 2018: 1). Porter and others suggest that the prosthesis “invites us to explore the intersection between the language and material, embodied and imagined worlds” (Porter et al., 2018: 2). Moreover, they offer a processual, active understanding of a prosthesis as something that is always in the state of becoming (Porter et al., 2018: 2).…”

Section: Archaeological Prosthesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Porter and others suggest that the prosthesis “invites us to explore the intersection between the language and material, embodied and imagined worlds” (Porter et al., 2018: 2). Moreover, they offer a processual, active understanding of a prosthesis as something that is always in the state of becoming (Porter et al., 2018: 2). This conception resonates with posthumanist definitions of the subject (Sobchack, 2006; cf.…”

Section: Archaeological Prosthesismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Stobiecka

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Prosthetic archaeology is a theoretical proposal for a materially oriented digital practice. It is based on a critical approach to implementing the latest technologies in archaeology. Drawing from the philosophy of technology and prosthetic studies, this project offers a more critical and meaningful understanding of digital methods in archaeology. The main interpretative figure is the verb “to prostheticize.” Thus, prosthetic archaeology is not solely about prostheses — technological improvements understood as supplements. Rather, it is about the processes of “prostheticizing” archaeology, brought on by the digital turn in “the discipline of things.” A verbal understanding of this main category and its processual potential allows for a technological prosthesis to function as an active addition that does, makes, transforms, refers, evokes, (re)constructs, and generates meanings. The concept of prosthetic archaeology is illustrated with a discussion of the “Body Can’t Wait” advertising campaign organized in Paris, March 2018, where ancient and neoclassical sculptures were equipped with 3D-printed artificial limbs. Inspired by an advertising campaign that uses technology to raise social awareness and engage in current global problems, prosthetic archaeology may offer a prefigurative blueprint for a future, radical archaeology.

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Section: Archaeological Prosthesismentioning

confidence: 99%