Body ModificationMike Featherstone SAGE, 06.06.2000 - 347 Seiten This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West. It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'modern primitives', or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties? Contributors address the question of the permanence of body transformation through fitness regimes and body building; look at the French performance artist Orlan and the Australian performance artist Stelarc who explored Western standard o |
Inhalt
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Alternate Intimate and Involuntary Experiences | 117 |
Interview with Stelarc | 129 |
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan | 185 |
Towards a Return of the Embodied Will | 209 |
A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms | 227 |
Lyotard Kafka and the Visible Human Project | 249 |
A Variable Project | 267 |
Body Modification SelfMutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture | 291 |
A Literary Approach | 305 |
Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theater | 317 |
UnNatural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan | 149 |
An Interview with Orlan | 171 |
Index | 337 |
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