The Future of Flesh A Cultural Survey of the Body [Paperback]

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.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

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 . lz