The future of flesh : a cultural survey of the body / edited by Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe, 1966-

Kitsē-Mytakou, Katerina.

Yiannopoulou, Effie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Human body in motion pictures.

Human body on television.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

The Future of Flesh examines ways in which "flesh" has been reconceptualized in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Its twelve essays analyze contemporary attitudes to corporeal change resulting from pain, death, artistic experimentation, or technological intervention, and highlight current transformations in the very definition of "flesh." Cross-disciplinary in their approach, the essays in this collection investigate the limits, the politics, and the ethics surrounding corporeal change, and address topics that range from classical heroic bodies and breast cancer photography to cyberfiction.

Contents:

1 Toward the Futures of Flesh: An Introduction / Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, Effie Yiannopoulou 1

Part I Disintegrating Bodies

2 The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry / Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou 19

3 The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now / Thomas Laqueur 43

4 Langscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory, and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript / Savas Patsalidis 61

5 Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary U.S. Society / Cindy L. Linden 79

Part II Artistic Representations of Mutating Flesh

6 Chuck Palahniuk and the Violence of Beauty / Elisabeth Bronfen 101

7 Eye, Agency, and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer in and through Images / Katve-Kaisa Kontturi 115

8 Fantastic 4-Body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-Book Culture / Christina Dokou 133

9 Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art / Edwina Bartlem 155

Part III Posthuman Enfleshments

10 Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema / Nicola Rehling 181

11 Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine / Domna Pastourmatzi 199

12 Modernity and the Other Body: The Human Contract with Mute Animality / Linda Williams 221

13 Meta(l)flesh / Rosi Braidotti 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230613478

0230613470

OCLC:

255890353