Medial bodies netween fiction and faction reinventing corporeality

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sci...

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Weitere Verfasser: Butnaru, Denisa 1980- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld transcript [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Body cultures
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Zusammenfassung:In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations thought until recently to be only fictional products have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction
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ISBN:9783839447291
DOI:10.14361/9783839447291