Re:skin / / edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777503703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006
• ISBN: 1-282-09760-1; 9786612097607; 0-262-27277-6; 1-4294-6555-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): FlanaganMary <1969->; BoothAustin
• Disciplina: 813/.609353
• Soggetti: Skin; American fiction - 21st century; Canadian fiction - 21st century; Skin - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The man who plugged in (fiction) / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Safety of skin (nonfiction) / Melinda Rackham -- Making room for the body: from fragmentation to mediation (nonfiction) / Bernadette Wegenstein -- On morphological imagination (nonfiction) / Vivian Sobchack -- Fur Manifesto (fiction/nonfiction) / Model T. and Sara D(iamond) -- Ganger (Ball Lightning) (fiction) / Nalo Hopkinson -- Perfect twins (nonfiction) / Rebecca Cannon -- Lynx and strand (fiction) / Jewelle Gomez -- Readers of the lost art (fiction) / Elisabeth Vonarburg -- The Black.Net.Art actions: Blackness for sale (2001), The interaction of coloreds (2002), and The pink of stealth (2003) (fiction/nonfiction) / Keith + Mendi Obadike -- Eye contact: fine moving hands and the flesh and blood of image fabrication in the operating theaters of interventional radiology (nonfiction) / Christina Lammer -- Seminal space: getting under the digital skin (nonfiction) / Alicia Imperiale -- Skin (fiction/nonfiction) / Shelley Jackson -- Reskinning the everyday (nonfiction) / Mary Flanagan -- Performing blackness: virtual sports and becoming the other in an era of white supremacy (nonfiction) / ; David J. Leonard -- Morphologies: race as a visual technology (nonfiction) / Jennifer Gonzalez.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In re:skin, scholars, essayists, and short stort writers offer their perspectives on skin--as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality."--Dust jacket front flap.