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Evidence of two contradictory subcultural responses to the body is presented: the body-modification & adornment practices of modern primitivism, eg, tattooing, piercing, & scarification, & the cyberspace experience of escaping the body. Modern primitivism with its stress on corporeal spiritualism & rituals is in fact a subculture about the body & the discourses of ownership, control, & sensation. This discourse is about the relationship between the body & technology. Similarly, the posthuman cyberpunk culture also deals with this relationship, with the disembodiment, disengagement, & "terminal numbness" in cyberspace. Cyberpunk writing includes descriptions of the aesthetic manipulation of the body, functional alterations of the body, & the melding of human & machine. These contradictory trends reflect the tension between disembodiment & re-embodiment as corporeal strategies. 36 References. M. Pflum