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Body modification /

This volume explores the growing range of practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants which have sprung up recently in the West.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Featherstone, Mike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.
Colección:Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Body modification : an introduction / Mike Featherstone
  • 'Modern primitivism' : non-mainstream body modification and racialized representation / Christian Klesse
  • The possibility of primitiveness : towards a sociology of body marks in cool societies / Bryan S Turner
  • Anchoring the (postmodern) self? : body modification, fashion and identity / Paul Sweetman
  • This body which is not one : dealing with differences / Margrit Shildrick
  • Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the auratic intensities of the postmodern techno-body / Nicholas Zurbrugg
  • Parasite visions : alternate, intimate and involuntary experiences / Stelarc
  • In dialogue with 'posthuman' bodies : an interview with Stelarc / Ross Farnell
  • An order of pure decision : un-natural selection in the work of Stelarc and Orlan / Jane Goodall
  • Serene and happy and distant : an interview with Orlan / Robert Ayers
  • The sacrificial body of Orlan / Julie Clarke
  • Citation and subjectivity : towards a return of the embodied will / Roy Boyne
  • Interaction order and beyond : a field analysis of body culture within fitness gyms / Roberta Sassatelli
  • The body as outlaw : Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project / Neal Curtis
  • Creating 'the perfect body' : a variable project / Lee Monaghan
  • Body modification, self-mutilation and agency in media accounts of a subculture / Victoria Pitts
  • Tattoos and heroin : a literary approach / Kevin McCarron
  • Performing the technoscientific body : real video surgery and the anatomy theater / Eugene Thacker.