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Monsters, monstrosities, and the monstrous in culture and society /
Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud's essay 'The Uncanny' to Scott Poole's 'Monsters in America', previous studies offer detailed insights a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wilmington, DE :
Vernon Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Series in Sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures - Introduction - GENDER, BIOPOLITICS, FEMINIST & QUEER THEORY. Chap. 1. Revealing the anatomy of the seductive unknown: German sirens of the 19th century - Chap. 2. Monster-as-actor, woman as role - Chap. 3. The break of gender stereotypes and it's relation to desire, eroticism, and love in Disney's "Beauty and the beast" (1991) - POLITICS, POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, TROLLING & SUBVERSION PRACTICES. Chap. 4. Looking B(l)ack: examining the monstrous history of Black oppression through racist imagery and artifacts - Chap. 5. Teratological aspects in artificial intelligence and robotics: from monstrous threats to Rorschach opportunities - Chap. 6. Politics over monstrosity and politics of monstrosity. The difference between negative and positive consideration about monsters - LIFE SCIENCES, BODY & SELF. Chap. 7. Morphological deviances: figures of transgression in motility disability and exoskeleton use - Chap. 8. Architecting the mouth, designing the smile: the body in orthodontic treatment in Turkey - Chap. 9. "Help, the monster is eating me!". Loss of control of the technical vs. harmonically acting cyborg - Chap. 10. The assemblage of the skull form. Parental decision, surgery and the normalization of the baby skull - AESTHETICS, ART, MEDIA & LITERATURE. Chap. 11. From golem to cyborg: symbolic reconfigurations of an ancient monstrum - Chap. 12. Citizen dead: aesthetical, ominous and rotten zombies - Chap. 13. Waking the monsters of insomniac rationality: conspiracy theory as critical technical practice - Chap. 14. A wonderful kind of monster: the likeable monster - PHOLOSOPHY, ETHICS, THEOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY. Chap. 15. The devil in contradiction: bringer of light - embodiment of the wicked - of the libidinal monstrosity - Chap. 16. Monster anthropologies and technology: machines, cyborgs and other techno-anthropological tools - Chap. 17. I, monster: hybrid anthropology - Chap. 18. Mathematical monsters.