Medial bodies between fiction and faction :: reinventing corporeality /

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sci...

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Weitere Verfasser: Butnaru, Denisa (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Body cultures.
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Zusammenfassung:In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations thought until recently to be only fictional products have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (266 pages)
ISBN:9783839447291
3839447291
9783837647297
3837647293

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