Body Modification. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mike Featherstone.
• Editors: Featherstone, Mike
• Contents: 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 McCarron; A Literary Approach; Performing the Technoscientific Body - Eugene Thacker; Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446227978; 1446227979
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.