Posthuman Bodies

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Judith M. Halberstam, Ira Livingston
Indiana University Press, Dec 22, 1995 - Science - 276 pages

"... 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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Posthuman 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.

About the author (1995)

JUDITH M. HALBERSTAM is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California-San Diego. IRA LIVINGSTON is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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