The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (Technologies: Studies in Culture & Theory) (Technologies: Studies in Culture & Theory S.) - Hardcover

Joanna Zylinska

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826459021 ISBN 13: 9780826459022

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2002

Synopsis

The Cyborg Experiments analyses the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs? As well as highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of 'the human', have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.

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About the Author

Joanna Zylinska is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton and author of On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: The Feminine and the Sublime.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826459021
• ISBN 13: 9780826459022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239