Table of Contents

Body Modification - Mike Featherstone
An Introduction
′Modern Primitivism′ - Christian Klesse
Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation
The Possibility of Primitiveness - Bryan S Turner
Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity - Paul Sweetman
This Body Which Is Not One - Margrit Shildrick
Dealing with Differences
Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body - Nicholas Zurbrugg
Parasite Visions - Stelarc
Alternate, Intimate and Involuntary Experiences
In Dialogue with ′Posthuman′ Bodies - Ross Farnell
An Interview with Stelarc
An Order of Pure Decision - Jane Goodall
Un-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and Orlan
Serene and Happy and Distant - Robert Ayers
An Interview with Orlan
The Sacrificial Body of Orlan - Julie Clarke
Citation and Subjectivity - Roy Boyne
Towards a Return of the Embodied Will
Interaction Order and Beyond - Roberta Sassatelli
A Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness Gyms
The Body as Outlaw - Neal Curtis
Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project
Creating ′The Perfect Body′ - Lee Monaghan
A Variable Project
Body Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture - Victoria Pitts
Tattoos and Heroin - Kevin McCarron
A Literary Approach
Performing the Technoscientific Body - Eugene Thacker
Real Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre

About the Author

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht