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Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction Reinventing Corporeality Denisa Butnaru
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Körperkulturen.
- KörperKulturen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medial Body.
- Corporeality.
- Technology.
- Enhancement.
- Disability.
- Fiction.
- Faction.
- Biotechnology.
- Body.
- Media.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Theory.
- Digital Media.
- Media Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Medial Body.
- Corporeality.
- Technology.
- Enhancement.
- Disability.
- Fiction.
- Faction.
- Biotechnology.
- Body.
- Media.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Theory.
- Digital Media.
- Media Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Butnaru, Medial Bodies between Fiction Reinventing Corporeality
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Denisa Butnaru (Dr.), born in 1980, is the principal investigator of the project »Deviant Bodies. Extended Bodies«. The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and based at the University of Konstanz. Her major fields of interest include theories of subject and subjectivity in phenomenology, sociology of the body, science and technology studies, disability studies, and qualitative methodology in social sciences. Her research focuses on the transformation of the body by recent technologies, such as exoskeletons, while using the phenomenology of the body as a theoretical background.
- Summary:
- In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
- Besprochen in:https://www.uni-konstanz.de, 6 (2021)
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015) 21 Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity 41 Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia 61 The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans 85 From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse 107 Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins 125 The Protean Self 147 Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction 165 The Cinematic Body 189 Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body 205 Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research 221 The Aberrant Medial Body 245 List of Authors 263
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839447291
- 3839447291
- OCLC:
- 1158216152
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