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Body Modification

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May 2000 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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?

Mike Featherstone
Body Modification
An Introduction

 
Christian Klesse
'Modern Primitivism'
Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation

 
Bryan S Turner
The Possibility of Primitiveness
Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies

 
Paul Sweetman
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Margrit Shildrick
This Body Which Is Not One
Dealing with Differences

 
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Stelarc
Parasite Visions
Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences

 
Ross Farnell
In Dialogue with 'Posthuman' Bodies
An Interview with Stelarc

 
Jane Goodall
An Order of Pure Decision
Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan

 
Robert Ayers
Serene and Happy and Distant
An Interview with Orlan

 
Julie Clarke
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
Roy Boyne
Citation and Subjectivity
Towards a Return of the Embodied Will

 
Roberta Sassatelli
Interaction Order and Beyond
A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms

 
Neal Curtis
The Body as Outlaw
Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project

 
Lee Monaghan
Creating 'The Perfect Body'
A Variable Project

 
Victoria Pitts
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
Kevin McCarron
Tattoos and Heroin
A Literary Approach

 
Eugene Thacker
Performing the Technoscientific Body
Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre

 

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