Disability And The Posthuman by Stuart Murray
Bodies, Technology, and Cultural Futures
The book examines how posthuman thought—cyborg theory, distributed cognition and emerging biotechnologies—reframes disability by showing bodies, technologies and environments as deeply entangled, so disability becomes a relational and political phenomenon rather than merely an individual deficit. It interrogates biomedical and rehabilitative narratives, analyzes cultural representations and the effects of prostheses, assistive devices and neurotechnologies, and explores how these unsettle conventional boundaries between human and machine, normal and other. Arguing for a posthuman disability politics, it emphasizes interdependence, multiplicity and structural critique while attending to ethical questions of access, power and embodiment.
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- 2008
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