Bodies in Flux: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism

In: Issn Ser.

In: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries Ser.

Abstract

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism -- Part 1 Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment -- Chapter 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities -- References -- Chapter 2 "Bodies We Obsess Upon": Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014) -- References -- Part 2 Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity -- Chapter 3 Body Going 'Gaga': Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic Body -- References -- Chapter 4 "This Guy Is Such a Machine!": Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media -- References -- Chapter 5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era -- References -- Part 3 Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender -- Chapter 6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s -- References -- Chapter 7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature -- References -- Chapter 8 Margaret Atwood's Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity -- References -- Index.