BODY MODIFICATION Issue

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BODY MODIFICATION

Body & Society Special Issue [vol.5, no.2-3]

Edited by Mike Featherstone

http://tcs.ntu.ac.uk/journals/body.html


Contents:

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]

Margit 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: 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: RealVideo Surgery
and the Anatomy Theater]



Body & Society was launched in 1995 to cater for the upsurge of interest
in the social and cultural analysis of the human body that has taken
place in recent years. Its editors are Mike Featherstone and Bryan S Turner.

Body & Society centrally concerns itself with debates in feminism,
technology, ecology, postmodernism, medicine, ethics and consumerism
which take the body as the central analytic issue in the questioning of
established paradigms.

The journal examines the extensive range of issue that have emerged from
these debates by engaging with the contributions of writers such as:
Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous,
Deleuze/Guattari, Mary Douglas, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Donna
Haraway, Julia Kristeva, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others.

The journal is dedicated to the publication of contemporary empirical
and theoretical work from a wide range of disciplines, including
anthropology; art history; communication; cultural history; cultural
studies; feminism; film studies; health studies; leisure studies;
medical history; philosophy; psychology; religious studies; sociology;
and sports studies.



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