Body Utopianism

Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement

AvFranziska Bork Petersen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. Techniques and technologies to transform our bodies are increasingly accessible and suggest an excessive identification of the body as lacking.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-05
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:528 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Antal sidor:311
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030974855

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Franziska Bork Petersen is a performance scholar and teaches at Roskilde University, Denmark, the Danish National School of Performing Arts, and Heinrich-Heine Universität, Germany. Her work on dance, performance art and fashion has appeared in Performance Research and MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- PART I: IMPOSSIBLE, IMAGINED AND IMAGINARY BODIES.- 1. On being a body in Thomas More’s Utopia.- 2. Impossible body escapes.- 3. Technological bodies becoming images.- PART II: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT.- 4. Bodies of Lack.- 5. Utopias of Bodily Capacity.- 6. Beautifying body modification.- PART III: UTOPIAN ESTRANGEMENT.- 7. Bodily Estrangements of Space.- 8. Estrangements of corporeality.- 9. Estrangements of reproduction.- Conclusion.