Technics, Perception, Différance Narrating the Seeing-Machine?

Abstract

This article offers a discussion of the intricate relation between the human body and its technological supplementation. It argues that while the physical body may seem to sublimate in the plethora of discourses, it keeps reasserting its materiality via processes of technologization which capture perception and cognition in a constant cycle of disembodiment and re-embodiment. The article offers an analysis of Elizabet Goldring’s work with the Seeing Laser Ophthalmoscope, and her RetinaPrints (a unique form of visualization) to comment on the ways in which lived experiences are inexorably linked to practices of fragmentation, prosthesis and technological mediation.

Keywords

• prosthesis
• supplementation
• technology
• perception
• cognition
• corporeality
• différance
• techno-art
• retinaprints
• embodiment
• seeing machine
• slo