Posthuman BodiesJudith M. Halberstam, Ira Livingston "... will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." -- Richard Doyle Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others' bodies. |
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ONE Identity in Oshkosh | 23 |
Two Two Lessons from Burroughs | 38 |
THREE The End of the World of White Men | 57 |
Identities | 73 |
SEVEN The Seductive Power of Science | 135 |
Lesbians | 162 |
NINE Death of the Family or Keeping | 177 |
Posthuman | 203 |
Toward a Cyborg | 225 |
TWELVE Once They Were Men Now Theyre | 244 |
Contributors | 267 |
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Page 1 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
Page 3 - Posthuman bodies are the causes and effects of postmodern relations of power and pleasure, virtuality and reality, sex and its consequences. The posthuman body is a technology, a screen, a projected image" (3). The body both writes and is written upon; it is the scene as well as the aegis of representation. Modern rhetorical theory and composition studies have yet to grapple with insights emerging in a field of discourse that may as well be called "body studies.