The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body

Encompassing some of the most recent academic research on mainstream issues of body image, weight and representation of the body, this collection addresses the body in areas such as ancient Greek poetry, new media art, comic book culture and biotechnology.

"The book offers an emergent approach to body theory by concentrating on the materiality and 'radical alterity' of the flesh, as opposed to canonical theories of social construction of the body....an excellent contribution to cultural studies and body criticism." - Choice

"The volume continues in the tradition of moving away from essentialisms and makes an important contribution to the ongoing project of thinking through the body." - EJAS

"This is the time of the corpse, the comatose body, the cosmetically enhanced body and the chimera . . .This collection of essays insightfully explores the gendered, the mythological, the medical, the mutated, and the avatar body." - STELARC, Chair in Performance Arts, Brunel University West London and Senior Research Fellow, MARCS, University of Western Sydney

"An amazing collection of essays on locating the body - in art, medicine, culture, and theory - with a serious attempt to engage all our theoretical as well as pragmatic interests as owners and operators of bodies." - Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Autorentext

ZOE DETSI-DIAMANTI is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture at Aristotle University, Greece.
KATERINA KITSI-MITAKOU is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture in the School of English at Aristotle University, Greece.
EFFIE YIANNOPOULOU is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Theory at Aristotle University, Greece.

Inhalt
Introduction; Z.Detsi-Diamanti , K.Kitsi-Mitakou & E.Yiannopoulou PART I: DISINTERGRATING BODIES 'The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry'; E.Douka-Kabitoglou 'The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now'; T.Laqueur 'Landscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript'; S.Patsalidis 'Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary US Society'; C.Linden PART II: ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MUTATING FLESH 'Chuck Palaniuk and the Violence of Beauty'; E.Bronfen 'Eye, Agency and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer In and Through Images'; K.Kontturi 'Fantastic 4body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-book Culture'; C.Dokou 'Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art'; E.Bartlem PART III: POSTHUMAN ENFLESHMENTS 'Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema'; N.Rehling 'Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine'; D.Pastourmatzi 'Modernity and the 'Other Body': The Human Contract with Mute Animality'; R.Braidotti 'Meta(l)flesh; L.Williams