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UNINA9910810372403321 |
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Titolo |
Body modification / / edited by Mike Featherstone |
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London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-4462-2797-9 |
1-4462-6458-0 |
1-283-87957-3 |
0-7619-6795-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource resource (347 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Theory, culture & society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Body marking |
Human body - Symbolic aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Published in association with Theory, culture & society. |
Simultaneously published as Body & society, v. 5, no. 2-3. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 Orlan Serene 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 Theater; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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