Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe
The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body
1. Toward the Futures of Flesh: An Introduction
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, Effie Yiannopoulou
Part I. Disintegrating Bodies
2. The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry
Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou
3. The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now
Thomas Laqueur
4. Langscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory, and Philoktetes’ Postmodern Painscript
Savas Patsalidis
5. Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary U.S. Society
Cindy L. Linden
Part II. Artistic Representations of Mutating Flesh
6. Chuck Palahniuk and the Violence of Beauty
Elisabeth Bronfen
7. Eye, Agency, and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer in and through Images
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
8. Fantastic 4-Body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-Book Culture
Christina Dokou
9. Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art
Edwina Bartlem
Part III. Posthuman Enfleshments
10. Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema
Nicola Rehling
11. Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine
Domna Pastourmatzi
12. Modernity and the
Linda Williams
13. Meta(l)flesh
Rosi Braidotti
Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, general
- Utgivare
- Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe
- Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina
- Yiannopoulou, Effie
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 284 sidor
- Kategori
- Konst, konsthistoria
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230620858
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-37806-7