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The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the
so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first
Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well
known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment,
etc. Originally published in 1970, this book describes another
experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted
children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the
community. It demonstrates once again David Wills’s conviction
that the offender wants to be ‘good’ and will be helped by
affection rather than by punishment. Yet it is obvious that the
work was full of stress and that only people with some of the
attributes of archangels could respond to the boys’ needs and
remain in control of the situation. The book demonstrates the
extent of deprivation suffered by such young people and that no
ordinary hostels or lodgings will do if they are to be set upon a
less turbulent course of life, leading to truly adult independence.
It added greatly to our understanding of the personalities,
experience of life and needs of maladjusted boys in their ‘teens
at the time, although the lessons drawn from it were disturbing in
relation both to prevention and treatment. The penetration of David
Wills’s assessment is beyond doubt and (as Dame Eileen
Younghusband concludes in her Foreword) his book will give a great
deal to those ‘trying in various capacities to help boys and
girls who otherwise would grow into adulthood permanently
handicapped emotionally and socially’. This book is a re-issue
originally published in 1970. The language used is a reflection of
its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by
this re-publication.
An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and
forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the
twentieth century. "One only ever asks forgiveness for what is
unforgivable." From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a
two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole
des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s.
In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical,
juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility.
His primary goal is to develop what he calls a "problematic of
lying" by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial,
false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege,
and blasphemy. Although forgiveness is a notion inherited from
multiple traditions, the process of forgiveness eludes those
traditions, disturbing the categories of knowledge, sense, history,
and law that attempt to circumscribe it. Derrida insists on the
unconditionality of forgiveness and shows how its complex
temporality destabilizes all ideas of presence and even of
subjecthood. For Derrida, forgiveness cannot be reduced to
repentance, punishment, retribution, or salvation, and it is
inseparable from, and haunted by, the notion of perjury. Through
close readings of Kant, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Plato,
Jankelevitch, Baudelaire, and Kafka, as well as biblical texts,
Derrida explores diverse notions of the "evil" or malignancy of
lying while developing a complex account of forgiveness across
different traditions.
The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the
so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first
Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well
known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment, The Barns Experiment,
etc. Originally published in 1970, this book describes another
experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted
children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the
community. It demonstrates once again David Wills's conviction that
the offender wants to be 'good' and will be helped by affection
rather than by punishment. Yet it is obvious that the work was full
of stress and that only people with some of the attributes of
archangels could respond to the boys' needs and remain in control
of the situation. The book demonstrates the extent of deprivation
suffered by such young people and that no ordinary hostels or
lodgings will do if they are to be set upon a less turbulent course
of life, leading to truly adult independence. It added greatly to
our understanding of the personalities, experience of life and
needs of maladjusted boys in their 'teens at the time, although the
lessons drawn from it were disturbing in relation both to
prevention and treatment. The penetration of David Wills's
assessment is beyond doubt and (as Dame Eileen Younghusband
concludes in her Foreword) his book will give a great deal to those
'trying in various capacities to help boys and girls who otherwise
would grow into adulthood permanently handicapped emotionally and
socially'. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1970.
The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is
meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
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Theory and Practice
Jacques Derrida; Edited by Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf; Translated by David Wills
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Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge
the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting.
Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques
Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and
1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above
all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential
interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s many
questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at unsettling the
distinction between thinking and acting. Derrida’s
investigations set out from Marx’s “Theses on
Feuerbach,” in particular the eleventh thesis, which has
often been taken as a mantra for the “end of philosophy,” to be
brought about by Marxist practice. Derrida argues, however, that
Althusser has no such end in view and that his discourse remains
resolutely philosophical, even as it promotes the theory/practice
pair as primary values. This seminar also draws fascinating
connections between Marxist thought and Heidegger and features
Derrida’s signature reconsideration of the dichotomy between
doing and thinking. This text, available for the first time in
English, shows that Derrida was doing important work on Marx long
before Specters of Marx. As with the other volumes in this series,
it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse into Derrida’s thinking
at its best—spontaneous, unpredictable, and groundbreaking.
Originally published in 1945, this is a concise account of the
remarkable experiment with boys carried out by the author of The
Hawkspur Experiment. The war put this latter experiment into
abeyance, but gave its author an opportunity to practice his
principles on a group of younger difficult boys. Aged from eight to
fourteen, these boys were the "throw-outs" of the Evacuation
Scheme, but before the Barns experiment had been long in operation
troublesome boys were being evacuated not primarily to escape
bombs, but in order that they might have the treatment that Barns
provided. Barns was a Hostel-school initiated by the Society of
Friends, where lawless boys made their own laws, and where the
principle instrument in their reformation was not punishment but
affection. So successful were the unconventional methods here
described that sceptics were convinced, and Barns has now achieved
a permanent place in the field of "the therapy of the dis-social."
Today it would be described as a therapeutic community and is one
of the earliest experiments of its kind that raised awareness and
paved the way for further research in this area.
Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute
the popular assumption at the time that a 'bit of discipline' is
what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent
tendencies, this book is much more than that. Basically an account
of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was
head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the
fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the day's
newest methods in penal treatment, not just as ideas, but in
practice. Here is the therapeutic community in embryo, here are the
beginnings of group therapy, of inmate participation in treatment,
of therapy through relationships. None of them are mentioned by
name - the names had not been invented; but anyone who wanted to
understand the trends in the treatment of delinquent and
maladjusted people at the time would find it all here in simple
untechnical English. The book is also an account of an enthralling
experience, exciting and interesting in itself, apart from any
social significance. Just before the camp started, Alec Paterson
said to David Wills, 'Do you really think you can run a place of
this kind without the use of punishment?' Wills said he didn't
know, but looked forward to trying. Readers of this book may judge
for themselves how far he succeeded. A particularly interesting
feature of this edition is the account of the subsequent lives of
the many boys who were at Hawkspur.
First published in 1999, this volume aims to explore the impact of
China's recent economic reforms and dynamic economic progress on
land use, the property market and construction activity under the
leadership of Deng Xiaoping until his death in 1997. Following the
famine and bloody mayhem of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and
Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping took on the task of piecing the
country back together to once more become a leading world economy.
Here, Jean Jinghan Chen and David Wills concentrate on his reforms
and progress, examining at what point power can be said to have
passed from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin, to what extent Deng's
political philosophy remained in place under the new government and
what this means for China's economic reforms on land, property and
construction. The authors provide a view on how management of the
physical environment needs to be considered in the context of
economic progress to achieve sustainable development.
First published in 1999, this volume aims to explore the impact of
China's recent economic reforms and dynamic economic progress on
land use, the property market and construction activity under the
leadership of Deng Xiaoping until his death in 1997. Following the
famine and bloody mayhem of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and
Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping took on the task of piecing the
country back together to once more become a leading world economy.
Here, Jean Jinghan Chen and David Wills concentrate on his reforms
and progress, examining at what point power can be said to have
passed from Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin, to what extent Deng's
political philosophy remained in place under the new government and
what this means for China's economic reforms on land, property and
construction. The authors provide a view on how management of the
physical environment needs to be considered in the context of
economic progress to achieve sustainable development.
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Clang (Paperback)
Jacques Derrida; Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, David Wills
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A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of
Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue
with each other Jacques Derrida’s famously challenging book Glas
puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and
reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column
discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet,
with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The
resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is
a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of
grafting. Presented here in an entirely new translation as
Clang—its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death
knell—this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel’s totalizing,
hierarchical system of thought with Genet’s autobiographical,
carceral erotics. It innovatively forces two incompatible
discourses into dialogue with each other: philosophical and
literary, familial and perverse, logical and sensory. In both
content and structure, Clang heightens the significance of all
encounters across ruptures of thought or experience and vibrates
with the impact of discordant languages colliding.
An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and
repentance from Jacques Derrida. Perjury and Pardon is a
two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the École des
hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s.
In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical,
juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility.
His primary goal is to develop what he calls a “problematic of
lying” by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial,
false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege,
and blasphemy. This volume covers the seminar’s second year when
Derrida explores the political dimensions of forgiveness and
repentance. Over eight sessions, he discusses Hegel, Augustine,
Levinas, Arendt, and Benjamin as well as Bill Clinton’s
impeachment and Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu’s testimonies
before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The seminars
conclude with an extended reading of Henri Thomas’s 1964 novel Le
Parjure.
This fascinating publication presents the roles two men have played
in turning a small workshop in nineteenth-century Paris into one of
the most successful and recognized brands in the world. Known for
both craftsmanship and must-have high design, Louis Vuitton the
luxury house was started by its eponymous founder in 1854. The
first half of this publication traces the innovations by Vuitton,
who turned the little-known guild profession of emballeur (packer)
into the foremost luxury trunk maker in Paris, with a clientele
that included in his lifetime the French nobility as well as the
elite of a prosperous empire. Prime and never-before-seen examples
of Vuitton's craftsmanship, along with the fashion that went into
them, are the highlights of these chapters. The second half of the
book examines the role of Marc Jacobs as Louis Vuitton's creative
director (since 1997), who took the Louis Vuitton house into a new
era with a series of collaborations with artists and designers-such
as Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and Stephen Sprouse-as well as
designing a line of highly successful and desired clothing for the
company. By examining two divergent but often similar careers one
hundred years apart, Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs is not only a
layered study of the evolution of a luxury brand in the past 150
years but also a celebration of technical and design innovations in
the new century.
Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques
Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and
1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above
all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential
interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s many
questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at unsettling the
distinction between thinking and acting. Derrida’s investigations
set out from Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach,” in particular the
eleventh thesis, which has often been taken as a mantra for the
“end of philosophy,” to be brought about by Marxist practice.
Derrida argues, however, that Althusser has no such end in view and
that his discourse remains resolutely philosophical, even as it
promotes the theory/practice pair as primary values. This seminar
also draws fascinating connections between Marxist thought and
Heidegger and features Derrida’s signature reconsideration of the
dichotomy between doing and thinking. This text, available for the
first time in English, shows that Derrida was doing important work
on Marx long before Specters of Marx. As with the other volumes in
this series, it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse into
Derrida’s thinking at its best—spontaneous, unpredictable, and
groundbreaking.
Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, made at the height of the French
New Wave, remains a milestone in French cinema. More accessible
than his later films, it represents the diverse facets of Godard's
concerns and themes: a bittersweet analysis of male-female
relations; an interrogation of the image; personal and
international politics; the existential dilemmas of consumer
society. This volume, first published in 2000, brings together
essays by five prominent scholars of French film. They approach
Pierrot le fou from the perspectives of image-and-word-play,
aesthetics and politics, history, and high and popular culture,
offering thought-provoking insights into the film, while
demonstrating its relevance for a new generation of students of
film. Also included are a selection of reviews of the film, as well
as a complete filmography of Godard's work.
Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, made at the height of the French
New Wave, remains a milestone in French cinema. More accessible
than his later films, it represents the diverse facets of Godard's
concerns and themes: a bittersweet analysis of male-female
relations; an interrogation of the image; personal and
international politics; the existential dilemmas of consumer
society. This volume, first published in 2000, brings together
essays by five prominent scholars of French film. They approach
Pierrot le fou from the perspectives of image-and-word-play,
aesthetics and politics, history, and high and popular culture,
offering thought-provoking insights into the film, while
demonstrating its relevance for a new generation of students of
film. Also included are a selection of reviews of the film, as well
as a complete filmography of Godard's work.
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of
the complete text of Jacques Derrida’s ten-hour address to the
1997 Cérisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal,”
the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was
assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one
written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session.
The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple
roles played by animals in Derrida’s work and a profound
philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of
animal life that takes place as a result of the
distinction—dating from Descartes—between man as thinking
animal and every other living species. That starts with the very
fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the
millions of other species that are reduced to a single “the
animal.” Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it,
surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger,
Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the
question in the work of each of them. The book’s autobiographical
theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the
figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida’s
experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the
morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what
this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the
experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into
the mythologies of “man’s dominion over the beasts” and trace
a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal
his own failings or bêtises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at
times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the
modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot
subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to
follow through, in all its implications, the questions and
definitions of “life” to which he returned in much of his later
work.
Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode
the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives-until it was
time to step back and reassess his own life. A young father with a
rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant
by several hospitals. A kid who was considered not "smart enough"
to be worthy of a transplant. A young mother dying on the waiting
list in front of her two small children. A father losing his oldest
daughter after a transplant goes awry. The nights waiting for donor
lungs to become available, understanding that someone needed to die
so that another patient could live. These are some of the stories
in Exhale, a memoir about Dr. Weill's ten years spent directing the
lung transplant program at Stanford. Through these stories, he
shows not only the miracle of transplantation, but also how it is a
very human endeavor performed by people with strengths and
weaknesses, powerful attributes, and profound flaws. Exhale is an
inside look at the world of high-stakes medicine, complete with the
decisions that are confronted, the mistakes that are made, and the
story of a transplant doctor's slow recognition that he needed to
step away from the front lines. This book is an exploration of
holding on too tight, of losing one's way, and of the power of
another kind of decision-to leave behind everything for a fresh
start.
Matchbook consists of nine essays written around, or in response
to, work published by Jacques Derrida since 1980. The focal point
of the essays is the "Envois," which forms part of Derrida's Post
Card. Particular attention is paid to how that text articulates
with the ethical and political emphases of Derrida's more recent
work, but also to its autobiographical conceit. The "incendiary"
reference of the book's title underscores deconstruction's
engagement with questions of reading: relations between (slow)
reading and the speed of technology, and the political effects of
an internationalized deconstruction in a globalized culture. It is
in terms of what deconstruction can have us think about the speed
of technology and technologies of reading that Derrida's work has
made one of its most important contributions to philosophy and
literary and cultural studies. The book concentrates on that as
proof of the continued relevance of such work.
Prosthesis is an experiment in critical writing that both analyses
and performs certain questions about the body as an "artificial"
construction. The book deals with the mechanical (e.g., a
mechanical prosthesis like an artificial leg) in that most
humanistic of discourses, the artistic - in order to demonstrate
how far a supposedly natural creation relies on artificial devices
of various kinds. Cutting across the terrains occupied
traditionally by the history of medicine, film studies, art
history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and fiction,
its impeccable scholarship demonstrates the permeability of the
frontiers that define academic regions and delimit a scholarship
determined to ascertain, to describe and prescribe, to hold in
check and dominate as fields of knowledge what are in fact fields
of practice, intervention, and invention.
Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made
by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death
penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the
typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we
will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal
temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of
death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or
perverting, the machinery of time that is already attached to human
existence. Time, Wills argues, functions for us in general as a
prosthetic technology, but the application of the death penalty
represents a new level of prosthetic intervention into what
constitutes the human. Killing Times traces the logic of the death
penalty across a range of sites. Starting with the legal cases
whereby American courts have struggled to articulate what methods
of execution constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,” Wills
goes on to show the ways that technologies of death have themselves
evolved in conjunction with ideas of cruelty and instantaneity,
from the development of the guillotine and the trap door for
hanging, through the firing squad and the electric chair, through
today’s controversies surrounding lethal injection. Responding to
the legal system’s repeated recourse to
storytelling—prosecutors’ and politicians’ endless recounting
of the horrors of crimes—Wills gives a careful eye to the
narrative, even fictive spaces that surround crime and punishment.
Many of the controversies surrounding capital punishment, Wills
argues, revolve around the complex temporality of the death
penalty: how its instant works in conjunction with forms of
suspension, or extension of time; how its seeming correlation
between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated by a
number of different discourses. By pinpointing the temporal
technology that marks the death penalty, Wills is able to show
capital punishment’s expansive reach, tracing the ways it has
come to govern not only executions within the judicial system, but
also the opposed but linked categories of the suicide bombing and
drone warfare. In discussing the temporal technology of death,
Wills elaborates the workings both of the terrorist who produces a
simultaneity of crime and “punishment” that bypasses judicial
process, and of the security state, in whose remote-control
killings the time-space coordinates of “justice” are compressed
and at the same time disappear into the black hole of secrecy.
Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death
penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book
pushes the question of capital punishment beyond the confines of
legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment
defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the
whole of human mortality.
The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration
of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given
Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one
reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice,
murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher
Jan Patocka's Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and
develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas,
and Kierkegaard. One of Derrida's major works, The Gift of Death
resonates with much of his earlier writing, and this highly
anticipated second edition is greatly enhanced by David Wills's
updated translation. This new edition also features the first-ever
English translation of Derrida's Literature in Secret. In it,
Derrida continues his discussion of the sacrifice of Isaac, which
leads to bracing meditations on secrecy, forgiveness, literature,
and democracy. He also offers a reading of Kafka's Letter to His
Father and uses the story of the flood in Genesis as an embarkation
point for a consideration of divine sovereignty. "An important
contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself
to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of religion . . . [and
those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends
Derrida."--Booklist, on the first edition
A stunning photographic compilation showcasing Audrey Hepburn's
iconic career in the 1950s-the decade that solidified her place as
one of the world's greatest stars in film and fashion. Devoted to
her most influential decade, Audrey: The 50s brings together in one
volume the allure and elegance that made Audrey Hepburn the most
iconic figure in modern fashion history. Photographed during the
early days of her career, both on the sets of Roman Holiday,
Sabrina, Funny Face, and other classic films, and in fashion photo
shoots by top photographers who adored and immortalized her, these
beautiful black-and-white and color images radiate with Audrey's
waifish charm, ethereal beauty, and effortless style. Renowned
author, curator and photographic preservationist David Wills has
carefully selected this collection of two hundred museum-quality
photos that capture Audrey in her prime as never before. Audrey:
The 50s displays this star at her brightest, and brings her legacy
into perfect focus. Among the highlights: * Rare and classic images
digitally restored from vintage photographic prints, original
studio negatives and transparencies.* Never-before-seen publicity
photos, scene stills and work shots from the sets of Roman Holiday,
Sabrina, Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, and The Nun's Story.*
Previously unpublished "posed candids" of Audrey at home.*
Beautifully restored advertisements, fan magazine layouts,
international film posters and lobby cards.* Quotes from
photographers, directors, and costars, including William Holden,
Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Billy Wilder, King Vidor, William
Wyler, Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy, Richard Avedon, Cecil
Beaton, and Audrey herself.
The Battle of Villamuriel was the largest engagement of
Wellington's retreat from Burgos in 1812. Twice as many men were
involved as in the better-known actions at Villadrigo/Venta del
Pozo two days earlier. This is the first full length account of the
action and improves significantly on previous accounts in the
campaign histories by Napier, Fortescue, Oman, and Divall. Archival
sources from Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal have been
used to build a coherent and balanced account. The orders of battle
are detailed and the military experience of both the commanders and
their units is provided. Detailed maps of the deployment of both
forces throughout the action are provided. A detailed breakdown of
the casualties on both sides is also given. Also highlighted are
the previously unreported role of 9th Foot as an aspiring light
infantry regiment, and the 1835 controversy around Napier's account
using the archives of the Sir John Oswald and a potential source
for Napier's account is identified. This has resulted in a detailed
study of one day's action in the 1812 campaign, with a view to
extracting improved understanding of how the armies fought. The
wargamer is provided with detailed scenarios to enable them to
recreate the action on the table top. The action is effectively a
re-match between the Anglo-Portuguese 5th Division and the 5e
Division of the Armee de Portugal, only a few months after the
former successfully dispersed the latter at Salamanca in July.
Wellington at Bay includes a Foreword by Carole Divall.
An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human
body and artificial inanimate objects Prosthesis is a landmark work
in posthuman thought that analyzes and explores the human body as a
technology, seamlessly integrated (both physically and
psychologically) with prosthetics. Here David Wills lays the
groundwork for ideas he develops in two of his other books,
Dorsality, exploring how technology functions behind or before the
human, and Inanimation, giving perspective on what it means to be
“alive.” In Prosthesis, Wills promotes the idea that the
human body is open to supplementation by artificial addenda that
operate both internally or externally and engage it in an unceasing
arbitration with the environment. Questioning the opposition
between animate and inanimate along with the logic of the automatic
prioritization of living flesh, Prosthesis undertakes these
assumptions by studying thematics of artificiality through the
writings of Freud, Derrida, William Gibson, Peter Greenaway, and
others. In the twenty-five years since its first publication,
Prosthesis has been a point of reference in the field of disability
studies. It has also been recognized for its “prosthetic”
writing, consisting of academic and autobiographical voices and
styles that are artificially attached to one another.
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