Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction
Reinventing Corporeality
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Introduction
Seiten 7 - 18 -
I. Hybrid Bodies
Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015)
Seiten 21 - 40 -
Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity
Seiten 41 - 60 -
Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia
Seiten 61 - 84 -
The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans
Seiten 85 - 104 -
II. Bodies Unbound: Disability, Ability, Enhancement
From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse
Seiten 107 - 124 -
Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins
Seiten 125 - 146 -
The Protean Self
Seiten 147 - 164 -
Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction
Seiten 165 - 186 -
III. Corporeal Interfaces
The Cinematic Body
Seiten 189 - 204 -
Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body
Seiten 205 - 220 -
Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research
Seiten 221 - 244 -
The Aberrant Medial Body
Seiten 245 - 262 -
List of Authors
Seiten 263 - 270
26. Juni 2020, 270 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4729-7
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