Mike Featherstone 
Body Modification [EPUB ebook] 

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

It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of ′modern primitives′, or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties?

Tabela de Conteúdo

Body Modification – Mike Featherstone

An Introduction

′Modern Primitivism′ – Christian Klesse

Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation

The Possibility of Primitiveness – Bryan S Turner

Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies

Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity – Paul Sweetman

This Body Which Is Not One – Margrit Shildrick

Dealing with Differences

Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body – Nicholas Zurbrugg

Parasite Visions – Stelarc

Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences

In Dialogue with ′Posthuman′ Bodies – Ross Farnell

An Interview with Stelarc

An Order of Pure Decision – Jane Goodall

Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan

Serene and Happy and Distant – Robert Ayers

An Interview with Orlan

The Sacrificial Body of Orlan – Julie Clarke

Citation and Subjectivity – Roy Boyne

Towards a Return of the Embodied Will

Interaction Order and Beyond – Roberta Sassatelli

A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms

The Body as Outlaw – Neal Curtis

Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project

Creating ′The Perfect Body′ – Lee Monaghan

A Variable Project

Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture – Victoria Pitts

Tattoos and Heroin – Kevin Mc Carron

A Literary Approach

Performing the Technoscientific Body – Eugene Thacker

Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre