Bodies in Flux : a Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism / Edited by Barbara Braid; Hanan Muzaffar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braid, Barbara, editor.

Muzaffar, Hanan, editor.

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 128.

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies – from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts – showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Wooley, Anna Pilińska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Śmieja and Hanan Muzaffar.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism / Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara Braid

Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment

The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities / Dawn Woolley

“Bodies We Obsess Upon”: Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014) / Anna Pilińska

Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity

Body Going ‘Gaga’: Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic Body / Barbara Braid

“This Guy Is Such a Machine!”: Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media / Jana Melkumova-Reynolds

Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era / Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez

Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender

POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s / Katharina Vester

From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature / Wojciech Śmieja

Margaret Atwood’s Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity / Hanan Muzaffar

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1114970660

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004408760 DOI