The Cyborg experiments : the extensions of the body in the media age /

The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number o.

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Other Authors: Zylinska, Joanna, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780826459022
0826459021
9780826459039
082645903X
9781847144393
184714439X
1472545877
9781472545879
1281291994
9781281291998
9786611291990
6611291997
9781441160768
1441160760
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Extending McLuhan into the New Media Age: An Introduction p. 1
  • The Cyborg Links
  • High-Tech Frankenstein, or Heidegger Meets Stelarc p. 15
  • The Human/Not Human in the Work of Orlan and Stelarc p. 33
  • Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages p. 56
  • Towards a Compliant Coupling: Pneumatic Projects, 1998-2001 p. 73
  • The Obsolete Body?
  • What Does an Avatar Want? Stelarc's E-motions p. 81-- Planned Obsolescence: Flying into the Future with Stelarc p. 101
  • Probings: An Interview with Stelarc p. 114
  • Para-Site p. 131
  • Self-hybridation
  • Morlan p. 149
  • The Virtual and/or the Real p. 168
  • Anger, Art and Medicine: Working with Orlan p. 172
  • Aesthetics and Ethics: Technological Perspectives
  • In Defence of Prefigurative Art: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Orlan and Stelarc p. 181
  • Ph/autography and the Art of Life: Gillian Wearing's Ethical Realism p. 193
  • 'The Future ... Is Monstrous': Prosthetics as Ethics p. 214
  • Name Index p. 237.