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Prosthetics and Aesthetics LEA Discussion


Prosthetics and Aesthetics
LEA Discussion

The contemporary perception of prosthetics has shifted in the 20th and 21st centuries from the idea of maimed and incomplete body to the futuristic vision of an empowered and augmented being.

The visual and cultural recontextualization of a mechanized body as a beautiful entity shifts along the lines of age and sex, moving towards a perception of the synthetic and mechanized as object of fetishism and erotic attraction.