The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Toward the Futures of Flesh: An Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry....Pages 19-41
The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now....Pages 43-59
Langscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory, and Philoktetes’ Postmodern Painscript....Pages 61-77
Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary U.S. Society....Pages 79-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Chuck Palahniuk and the Violence of Beauty....Pages 101-114
Eye, Agency, and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer in and through Images....Pages 115-131
Fantastic 4-Body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-Book Culture....Pages 133-154
Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art....Pages 155-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema....Pages 181-198
Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine....Pages 199-219
Modernity and the Other Body: The Human Contract with Mute Animality....Pages 221-239
Meta(l)flesh....Pages 241-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-273