Body Modification
eBook - ePub

Body Modification

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Body Modification

About this book

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?

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Index

abject/abjection, 81, 187–90, 196
acculturation, 25, 30, 81
‘Adam principle’, 219
Adami, Valerio, 256
Adams, Parveen, 9, 187, 192, 193
Adorno, Theodor, 42, 47
aesthesis, 8, 249–50, 254–61, 263–4
Against Nature (Huysman), 104, 105, 110
agency, 5, 82, 89, 111, 112, 149
awareness and, 120, 122, 126
of bodies, 277–84
and claims-making, 298–300
multiple, 120, 121, 126, 134–5, 164
nature and, 149, 150–51, 154, 161, 164, 168–9
self and, 161, 164, 168–9, 212
self-mutilation and, 7, 291–301
AIDS, 30, 185, 196
airport departure lounge, 42, 43–4, 46, 48, 49
alien action (Stelarc), 121–2
alienation, 19, 23–6, 43, 95, 215
America’s Health Network (AHN), 318
American Psycho (Ellis), 212
analytic induction, 271
Anatomia, 202
anatomical studies/science
Orlan’s performance aesthetic, 187–8
Real Video Surgery, 7, 317–34
Visible Human Project, 2, 8, 185, 249–65, 333
anatomy theatre (Real Video Surgery), 7, 317–34
anorexia nervosa, 1, 7, 210, 294, 296, 297
Ansell Pearson, Keith, 203
anthropology, 32–3, 35, 39, 41
anti-auratic theory, 93–7
Anti-Copernicus Robot, 137
anti-essentialism, 211, 221
anti-fashion, 5, 52, 5...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Mike Featherstone Body Modification: An Introduction
  6. Christian Klesse ‘Modern Primitivism’: Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation
  7. Bryan S. Turner The Possibility of Primitiveness: Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies
  8. Paul Sweetman Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
  9. Margrit Shildrick This Body Which Is Not One: Dealing with Differences
  10. Nicholas Zurbrugg Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
  11. Stelarc Parasite Visions: Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences
  12. Ross Farnell In Dialogue with Tosthuman’ Bodies: Interview with Stelarc
  13. Jane Goodall An Order of Pure Decision: Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan
  14. Robert Ayers Serene and Happy and Distant: An Interview with Orlan
  15. Julie Clarke The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
  16. Roy Boyne Citation and Subjectivity: Towards a Return of the Embodied Will
  17. Roberta Sassatelli Interaction Order and Beyond: A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms
  18. Neal Curtis The Body as Outlaw: Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project
  19. Lee Monaghan Creating ‘The Perfect Body’: A Variable Project
  20. Victoria Pitts Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
  21. Kevin McCarron Tattoos and Heroin: A Literary Approach
  22. Eugene Thacker Performing the Technoscientific Body: Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theater
  23. Index