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

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• Body Modification - Mike FeatherstoneAn Introduction′Modern Primitivism′ - Christian KlesseNon-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized RepresentationThe Possibility of Primitiveness - Bryan S TurnerTowards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool SocietiesAnchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity - Paul SweetmanThis Body Which Is Not One - Margrit ShildrickDealing with DifferencesMarinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body - Nicholas ZurbruggParasite Visions - StelarcAlternate, Intimate and Involuntary ExperiencesIn Dialogue with ′Posthuman′ Bodies - Ross FarnellAn Interview with StelarcAn Order of Pure Decision - Jane GoodallUn-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and OrlanSerene and Happy and Distant - Robert AyersAn Interview with OrlanThe Sacrificial Body of Orlan - Julie ClarkeCitation and Subjectivity - Roy BoyneTowards a Return of the Embodied WillInteraction Order and Beyond - Roberta SassatelliA Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness GymsThe Body as Outlaw - Neal CurtisLyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human ProjectCreating ′The Perfect Body′ - Lee MonaghanA Variable ProjectBody Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture - Victoria PittsTattoos and Heroin - Kevin McCarronA Literary ApproachPerforming the Technoscientific Body - Eugene ThackerReal Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre

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

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• Body Modification - Mike FeatherstoneAn Introduction′Modern Primitivism′ - Christian KlesseNon-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized RepresentationThe Possibility of Primitiveness - Bryan S TurnerTowards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool SocietiesAnchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity - Paul SweetmanThis Body Which Is Not One - Margrit ShildrickDealing with DifferencesMarinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body - Nicholas ZurbruggParasite Visions - StelarcAlternate, Intimate and Involuntary ExperiencesIn Dialogue with ′Posthuman′ Bodies - Ross FarnellAn Interview with StelarcAn Order of Pure Decision - Jane GoodallUn-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and OrlanSerene and Happy and Distant - Robert AyersAn Interview with OrlanThe Sacrificial Body of Orlan - Julie ClarkeCitation and Subjectivity - Roy BoyneTowards a Return of the Embodied WillInteraction Order and Beyond - Roberta SassatelliA Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness GymsThe Body as Outlaw - Neal CurtisLyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human ProjectCreating ′The Perfect Body′ - Lee MonaghanA Variable ProjectBody Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture - Victoria PittsTattoos and Heroin - Kevin McCarronA Literary ApproachPerforming the Technoscientific Body - Eugene ThackerReal Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre

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

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• Body Modification - Mike FeatherstoneAn Introduction′Modern Primitivism′ - Christian KlesseNon-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized RepresentationThe Possibility of Primitiveness - Bryan S TurnerTowards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool SocietiesAnchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity - Paul SweetmanThis Body Which Is Not One - Margrit ShildrickDealing with DifferencesMarinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the Auratic Intensities of the Postmodern Techno-Body - Nicholas ZurbruggParasite Visions - StelarcAlternate, Intimate and Involuntary ExperiencesIn Dialogue with ′Posthuman′ Bodies - Ross FarnellAn Interview with StelarcAn Order of Pure Decision - Jane GoodallUn-Natural Selection in the Work of Stelarc and OrlanSerene and Happy and Distant - Robert AyersAn Interview with OrlanThe Sacrificial Body of Orlan - Julie ClarkeCitation and Subjectivity - Roy BoyneTowards a Return of the Embodied WillInteraction Order and Beyond - Roberta SassatelliA Field Analysis of Body Culture within Fitness GymsThe Body as Outlaw - Neal CurtisLyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human ProjectCreating ′The Perfect Body′ - Lee MonaghanA Variable ProjectBody Modification, Self-Mutilation and Agency in Media Accounts of a Subculture - Victoria PittsTattoos and Heroin - Kevin McCarronA Literary ApproachPerforming the Technoscientific Body - Eugene ThackerReal Video Surgery and the Anatomy Theatre