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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451912103321

Titolo

Body modification [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mike Featherstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2000

ISBN

1-4462-2797-9

1-4462-6458-0

1-283-87957-3

0-7619-6795-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Altri autori (Persone)

FeatherstoneMike

Disciplina

391.65

Soggetti

Body marking

Human body - Symbolic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in association with Theory, culture & society.

Simultaneously published as Body & society, v. 5, no. 2-3.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Body Modification: An Introduction; Modern Primitivism': Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation; The Possibility of Primitiveness: Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies; Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity; This Body Which is Not One: Dealing with Differences; Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body; Parasite Visions: Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences; In Dialogue with 'Posthuman' Bodies: Interview with Stelarc

An Order of Pure Decision: Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and OrlanSerene and Happy and Distant: An Interview with Orlan; The Sacrificial Body of Orlan; Citation and Subjectivity: Towards a Return of the Embodied Will; Interaction Order and beyond: A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms; The Body as Outlaw: Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project; Creating 'The Perfect Body': A Variable Project; Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture; Tattoos and Heroin: A Literary Approach



Performing the Technoscientific Body: Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy TheaterIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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.