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Body utopianismprosthetic being between enhancement and estrangement /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Body utopianismby Franziska Bork Petersen.
Reminder of title:	prosthetic being between enhancement and estrangement /
Author:	Petersen, Franziska Bork.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	viii, 311 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Human bodySocial aspects.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97486-2
ISBN:	9783030974862$q(electronic bk.)

Body utopianismprosthetic being between enhancement and estrangement /
Petersen, Franziska Bork.

Body utopianismprosthetic being between enhancement and estrangement /[electronic resource] :by Franziska Bork Petersen. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - viii, 311 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in utopianism,2946-448X. - Palgrave studies in utopianism..

Introduction -- PART I: IMPOSSIBLE, IMAGINED AND IMAGINARY BODIES -- 1. On being a body in Thomas More's Utopia -- 2. Impossible body escapes -- 3. Technological bodies becoming images -- PART II: HUMAN ENHANCEMENT -- 4. Bodies of Lack -- 5. Utopias of Bodily Capacity -- 6. Beautifying body modification -- PART III: UTOPIAN ESTRANGEMENT -- 7. Bodily Estrangements of Space -- 8. Estrangements of corporeality -- 9. Estrangements of reproduction -- Conclusion.

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. Franziska Bork Petersen is a performance scholar and teaches at Roskilde University, Denmark, the Danish National School of Performing Arts, and Heinrich-Heine Universität, Germany. Her work on dance, performance art and fashion has appeared in Performance Research and MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research.

ISBN: 9783030974862$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-97486-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

349746
Human body
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: HM636

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4613

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