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|aThe future of flesh|h[electronic resource] :|ba cultural survey of the body /|cedited by Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsē-Mytakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou.
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|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|a"The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry" / E. Douka-Kabitoglou-- "The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now"/ Thomas Laqueur -- "Landscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript" / Savas Patsalidis -- "Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (Il)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary US Society" / Cindy Linden -- "Chuck Palaniuk and the Violence of Beauty" / Elisabeth Bronfen -- "Eye, Agency and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer In and Through Images" / Katve-Kaisa Kontturi -- "Fantastic 4body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-book Culture" / Christina Dokou -- "Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art" / Edwina Bartlem -- "Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema" / Nicola Rehling -- "Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine" / Domna Pastourmatzi -- "Modernity and the 'Other Body': The HumanContract with Mute Animality" / Rosi Braidotti -- "Meta(l)flesh" / Linda Williams.
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|a?The Future of Flesh examines ways in which "flesh" has been re-conceptualized in late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Its twelve essays analyze contemporary attitudes to corporeal change resulting from pain, death, artistic experimentation or technological intervention, and highlight current transformations in the very definition of "flesh." Cross-disciplinary in their approach, the essays in this collection investigate the limits, the politics and the ethics surrounding corporeal change, and address topics that range from classical heroicbodies, and breast cancer photography to cyberfiction.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2010.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Jan. 11, 2010).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aHuman body|xSocial aspects.
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|aHuman body (Philosophy)
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|aHuman body in literature.
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|aHuman body in motion pictures.
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|aHuman body in popular culture.
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|aHuman figure in art.
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