In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
17 March 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837647297
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PHILOSOPHY / Social
Denisa Butnaru (Dr.), born in 1980, is the principal investigator of the project »Deviant Bodies. Extended Bodies«. The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and based at the University of Konstanz. Her major fields of interest include theories of subject and subjectivity in phenomenology, sociology of the body, science and technology studies, disability studies, and qualitative methodology in social sciences. Her research focuses on the transformation of the body by recent technologies, such as exoskeletons, while using the phenomenology of the body as a theoretical background.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015) 21
Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity 41
Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia 61
The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans 85
From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse 107
Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins 125
The Protean Self 147
Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction 165
The Cinematic Body 189
Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body 205
Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research 221
The Aberrant Medial Body 245
List of Authors 263
