Body ModificationMike Featherstone 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 |
Contents
An Introduction | 1 |
NonMainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation | 15 |
Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies | 39 |
Anchoring the Postmodern Self? Body Modification Fashion and Identity | 51 |
Dealing with Differences | 77 |
Marinetti Chopin Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern TechnoBody | 93 |
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 |
RealVideo Surgery and the Anatomy Theater | 317 |
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References to this book
Sexy Bodies: Eine soziologische Reise durch den Geschlechtskörper Paula-Irene Villa Limited preview - 2006 |
In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification Victoria Pitts-Taylor No preview available - 2003 |