Overview

The Cyborg Experiments analyses 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 of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs? As well as highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of 'the human', have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.

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Author:   Joanna Zylinska
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780826459022

ISBN 10:   0826459021
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

I The Cyborg Links 1. High-tech Frankenstein, or Heidegger meets Stelarc, Mark Poster. 2. The Human/Not Human in the work of Orlan and Stelarc, Julie Clarke. 3. Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages, Meredith Jones and Zoe Sofla. 4. Towards a Compliant Coupling: Pneumatic Projects 1998-2001, Stelarc. II The Obsolete Body? 5. What does an Avatar Want?: Stelarc's E-motions, Edward Scheer. 6. Planned Obsolescence: Flying into the Future wiht Stelarc, John Appleby. 7. Probings: an Interview with Stelarc, Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall. 8. Para-Site, Gary Hall. III Self-hybridation. 9. Morlan, Fred Botting and Scott Willson. 10. The Virtual and/or the Real, Orlan. 11. Anger, Art and Medicine: Working with Orlan, Rachel Armstrong. IV Aesthetics and Ethics: Technological Perspectives. 12. In Defence of Prefigurative Art: the Aesthetics and Ethics of Orlan and Stelarc, Chris Hables Gray. 13. Photography and the Art of Life: Gillian Wearing's Ethical Realism, Jay Prosser. 14. 'The future...is monstrous': Prosthetics as Ethics, Joanna Zylinska.

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Joanna Zylinska is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton and author of On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: The Feminine and the Sublime.

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