Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction

Reinventing Corporeality

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2020
transcript (Verlag)
978-3-8376-4729-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Denisa Butnaru (Dr.), born in 1980, is the principal investigator of the project »Deviant Bodies. Extended Bodies«. The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and based at the University of Konstanz. Her major fields of interest include theories of subject and subjectivity in phenomenology, sociology of the body, science and technology studies, disability studies, and qualitative methodology in social sciences. Her research focuses on the transformation of the body by recent technologies, such as exoskeletons, while using the phenomenology of the body as a theoretical background.

Besprochen in:
https://www.uni-konstanz.de, 6 (2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	KörperKulturen
Zusatzinfo	11 SW-Abbildungen
Verlagsort	Bielefeld
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 225 mm
Gewicht	468 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Biotechnology • Body • Corporeality • Digital Media • Disability • Enhancement • Faction • Fiction • media • Media Aesthetics • Medial Body • Media Studies • Media Theory • Technology
ISBN-10	3-8376-4729-3 / 3837647293
ISBN-13	978-3-8376-4729-7 / 9783837647297
Zustand	Neuware