Body Utopianism Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement 1st edition by Franziska Bork Petersen 3030974863 9783030974862

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ISBN-10 :  3030974863 

ISBN-13 : 9783030974862

Author : Franziska Bork Petersen 

This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. It is the first comprehensive study to address the paradoxical relationship between bodies and utopianism. Franziska Bork Petersen discusses doping, bodybuilding and cosmetic surgery alongside practices such as retouching the ‘body as image’ on social media, and looks at how fashion modelling and performance ‘estrange’ the body. Techniques and technologies to transform our bodies are increasingly accessible and suggest an excessive identification of the body as lacking. To ‘be a body’ in a culturally meaningful way, we incessantly improve our bodily appearance and capacity. The book therefore addresses the utopianism inherent in a cultural understanding of bodies as increasingly controllable.

Body Utopianism: Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Impossible, Imagined and Imaginary Bodies
2. On Being a Body in Thomas More’s Utopia
3. Impossible Body Escapes
4. Technological Bodies Becoming Images
Part Back Matter
Part II. Human Enhancement
5. Bodies of Lack
6. Utopias of Bodily Capacity
7. Beautifying Body Modification
Part Back Matter
Part III. Utopian Estrangement
8. Bodily Estrangements of Space
9. Estrangements of Corporeality
10. Estrangements of Reproduction
Part Back Matter
11. Conclusion

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