Description
Book SynopsisEngages in an interdisciplinary investigation of the political technologies of the body in the wake of postmodernity, technologies apparent in film, medicine, entertainment industries, politics, and the arts. This book reflects the growing concern with interfaces between humans and computer and bio-medical technologies.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Posthuman Bodies—Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston
Part One: Multiples
Identity in Oshkosh—Allucquere Rosanne Stone
Two Lessons from Burroughs—Steven Shavior
Part Two: Some Genders
The End of the World of White Men—Kathy Acker
Class and Its Close Relations: Identities Among Women, Servants and Machines—Alexandra Chasin
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?—Paula Rabinowitz
Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man—Susan Squier
Part Three: Queering
The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity—Jennifer Terry
Phantom and Reel Projections: Lesbians and the (Serial)Killing Machine—Camilla Griggers
Death of the Family or Keeping Human Beings Human—Roddey Reid
Part Four: Terminal Bodies
Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Alien and Rabid—Kelly Hurley
Terminating Bodies: Toward A Cyborg History of Abortion—Carol Mason
"Once They Were Men, Now They're Landcrabs": Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema—Eric White
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