Prostheticity, Disability, and Spaceflight

• Main Author: Martin Boucher
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Laurentian University Library & Archives 2018-10-01
• Series: Con Texte
• Subjects: Critical Disability Studies; Mediated Posthumanism; Mediation; Reflexivity; Originary Prostheticity; Tamar Sharon; Dan Goodley; Rosi Braidotti
• Online Access: https://pubs.biblio.laurentian.ca/index.php/contexte/article/view/270/246

In this short work, the author will reflect on how we might understand the technology-subject relationship in a way that equally captures the position of the individual with a disability and that of the interplanetary astronaut. The works of Tamar Sharon in mediated posthumanism and Dan Goodley in critical disability studies will be consulted. This cursory exploration will conclude that both the astronaut and the individual with a disability are congruent posthuman subjects insofar as their relationship to technology challenges the idea of a transhumanist overcoming of human limits. Exploring this relationship can tell us something about how posthuman subjects may be understood more generally.