The prosthetic imagination: Enabling and disabling the prosthesis trope

This article critically examines the ways in which the trope of prosthesis has been used in recent theory to understand human-technology relationships . Analyzing the trope from a number of angles, including disability, factor y labor practices, mass production and marketing, the author scrutinizes wa ys in which technologies are simultaneously wounding and enabling in ways f or which the prosthesis trope cannot account.