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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies – from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts – showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna Pilińska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Śmieja and Hanan Muzaffar.
Table of ContentsIllustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara Braid Part 1 Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities Dawn Woolley 2 “Bodies We Obsess Upon”: Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014) Anna Pilińska Part 2 Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity 3 Body Going ‘Gaga’: Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic body Barbara Braid 4 “This Guy Is Such a Machine!” Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media Jana Melkumova-Reynolds 5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez Part 3 Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender 6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s Katharina Vester 7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature Wojciech Śmieja 8 Margaret Atwood’s Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity Hanan Muzaffar Index
