Posthuman Bodies
Indiana University Press
Published on 1. December 1995
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-253-32894-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Its sheer breadth of scope makes it unlike the usual - science, technology, and society - texts, and its rigorous insistence on the transformative and inventive potentials of these technologies distances it from the denunciatory, technophobic texts that litter academic bookshelves. Since both 'the body' and 'technoscience' are such potent sites of recent academic investigation, "Posthuman Bodies' will no doubt draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox."- Richard Doyle. ""Posthuman Bodies" is a speculative, or a performative, collection...[its] importance lies in its offering a singularly discriminating and singularly creative engagement with the imaginative project that Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Haraway have been among the first to foster."- James Faubion. "Posthuman Bodies" engages in a vital interdisciplinary investigation of the emerging political technologies of the body in the wake of postmodernity-technologies apparent in fil, medicine, entertainment industries, politics, and the arts.
This interdisciplinary collection reflects the growing concern with new interfaces between humans and computer and bio-medical technologies, providing a strong sense of the funamental changes underway that will radically alter the experience of our own and others'bodies. Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians and other queers, people with AIDS, people with multiple personality disorders, the Alien and the Terminator: they participate in the profound technological, representational, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. The contributors are Kathy Acker, Alexandra Chasin, Camilla Griggers, Judith Halberstam, Kelly Hurley, Ira Livingston, Carol Mason, Paula Rabinowitz, Roddey Reid, Steven Shaviro, Susan Squier, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Jennifer Terry, and Eric White.
This interdisciplinary collection reflects the growing concern with new interfaces between humans and computer and bio-medical technologies, providing a strong sense of the funamental changes underway that will radically alter the experience of our own and others'bodies. Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians and other queers, people with AIDS, people with multiple personality disorders, the Alien and the Terminator: they participate in the profound technological, representational, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. The contributors are Kathy Acker, Alexandra Chasin, Camilla Griggers, Judith Halberstam, Kelly Hurley, Ira Livingston, Carol Mason, Paula Rabinowitz, Roddey Reid, Steven Shaviro, Susan Squier, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Jennifer Terry, and Eric White.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-32894-6 (9780253328946)
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Content
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Posthuman BodiesNJudith Halberstam and Ira Livingston Part One: Multiples Identity in OshkoshNAllucquere Rosanne Stone Two Lessons from BurroughsNSteven Shavior Part Two: Some Genders The End of the World of White MenNKathy Acker Class and Its Close Relations: Identities Among Women, Servants and MachinesNAlexandra Chasin Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?NPaula Rabinowitz Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant ManNSusan Squier Part Three: Queering The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant SubjectivityNJennifer Terry Phantom and Reel Projections: Lesbians and the (Serial)Killing MachineNCamilla Griggers Death of the Family or Keeping Human Beings HumanNRoddey Reid Part Four: Terminal Bodies Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Alien and RabidNKelly Hurley Terminating Bodies: Toward A Cyborg History of AbortionNCarol Mason OOnce They Were Men, Now TheyOre LandcrabsO: Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist CinemaNEric White Index