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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 of beauty by experimenting on their own bodies with surgery and prosthetics; and explore the construction of the anatomy of a virtual body in Real Video Surgery and the Visible Human Project.
Academics and students in sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, communication studies, social psycholgy and art and design
Contents
Body Modification
- An Introduction
'Modern Primitivism'
- Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation
The Possibility of Primitiveness
- Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
This Body Which Is Not One
- Dealing with Differences
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Parasite Visions
- Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences
In Dialogue with 'Posthuman' Bodies
- An Interview with Stelarc
An Order of Pure Decision
- Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan
Serene and Happy and Distant
- An Interview with Orlan
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
Citation and Subjectivity
- Towards a Return of the Embodied Will
Interaction Order and Beyond
- A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms
The Body as Outlaw
- Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project
Creating 'The Perfect Body'
- A Variable Project
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
Tattoos and Heroin
- A Literary Approach
Performing the Technoscientific Body
- Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre
Description
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 of beauty by experimenting on their own bodies with surgery and prosthetics; and explore the construction of the anatomy of a virtual body in Real Video Surgery and the Visible Human Project.
Academics and students in sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, communication studies, social psycholgy and art and design
Contents
Body Modification
- An Introduction
'Modern Primitivism'
- Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation
The Possibility of Primitiveness
- Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
This Body Which Is Not One
- Dealing with Differences
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Parasite Visions
- Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences
In Dialogue with 'Posthuman' Bodies
- An Interview with Stelarc
An Order of Pure Decision
- Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan
Serene and Happy and Distant
- An Interview with Orlan
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
Citation and Subjectivity
- Towards a Return of the Embodied Will
Interaction Order and Beyond
- A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms
The Body as Outlaw
- Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project
Creating 'The Perfect Body'
- A Variable Project
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
Tattoos and Heroin
- A Literary Approach
Performing the Technoscientific Body
- Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre
June 2000 | 352 pages | Sage UK
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 31/03/2026 | 9780761967958 | $305.00 |
| Paperback | 31/03/2026 | 9780761967965 | $148.00 |
| 180 Day Ebook | 28/03/2023 | 9781446227978 | $92.00 |
| Lifetime | 28/03/2023 | 9781446227978 | $133.00 |
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 of beauty by experimenting on their own bodies with surgery and prosthetics; and explore the construction of the anatomy of a virtual body in Real Video Surgery and the Visible Human Project.
Academics and students in sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, communication studies, social psycholgy and art and design
Table Of Contents:
- Body Modification
- An Introduction
- 'Modern Primitivism'
- Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation
- The Possibility of Primitiveness
- Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies
- Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
- This Body Which Is Not One
- Dealing with Differences
- Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
- Parasite Visions
- Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences
- In Dialogue with 'Posthuman' Bodies
- An Interview with Stelarc
- An Order of Pure Decision
- Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan
- Serene and Happy and Distant
- An Interview with Orlan
- The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
- Citation and Subjectivity
- Towards a Return of the Embodied Will
- Interaction Order and Beyond
- A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms
- The Body as Outlaw
- Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project
- Creating 'The Perfect Body'
- A Variable Project
- Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
- Tattoos and Heroin
- A Literary Approach
- Performing the Technoscientific Body
- Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre