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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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2002.
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| ISBN: | 9780826459022 0826459021 9780826459039 082645903X 9781847144393 184714439X 1472545877 9781472545879 1281291994 9781281291998 9786611291990 6611291997 9781441160768 1441160760 |
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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.