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Body Modification
Edited by:
- Mike Featherstone - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
May 2000 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West.
It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'modern primitives', or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties?
Mike Featherstone
Body Modification
Christian Klesse
'Modern Primitivism'
Bryan S Turner
The Possibility of Primitiveness
Paul Sweetman
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Margrit Shildrick
This Body Which Is Not One
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body
Stelarc
Parasite Visions
Ross Farnell
In Dialogue with 'Posthuman' Bodies
Jane Goodall
An Order of Pure Decision
Robert Ayers
Serene and Happy and Distant
Julie Clarke
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan
Roy Boyne
Citation and Subjectivity
Roberta Sassatelli
Interaction Order and Beyond
Neal Curtis
The Body as Outlaw
Lee Monaghan
Creating 'The Perfect Body'
Victoria Pitts
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture
Kevin McCarron
Tattoos and Heroin
Eugene Thacker
Performing the Technoscientific Body
