Body modification / edited by Mike Featherstone.

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Published in association with Theory, culture & society.

Simultaneously published as Body & society, v. 5, no. 2-3.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Body modification : an introduction / Mike Featherstone -- 'Modern primitivism' : non-mainstream body modification and racialized representation / Christian Klesse -- The possibility of primitiveness : towards a sociology of body marks in cool societies / Bryan S Turner -- Anchoring the (postmodern) self? : body modification, fashion and identity / Paul Sweetman -- This body which is not one : dealing with differences / Margrit Shildrick -- Marinetti, Chopin, Stelarc and the auratic intensities of the postmodern techno-body / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Parasite visions : alternate, intimate and involuntary experiences / Stelarc -- In dialogue with 'posthuman' bodies : an interview with Stelarc / Ross Farnell -- An order of pure decision : un-natural selection in the work of Stelarc and Orlan / Jane Goodall -- Serene and happy and distant : an interview with Orlan / Robert Ayers -- The sacrificial body of Orlan / Julie Clarke -- Citation and subjectivity : towards a return of the embodied will / Roy Boyne -- Interaction order and beyond : a field analysis of body culture within fitness gyms / Roberta Sassatelli -- The body as outlaw : Lyotard, Kafka and the Visible Human Project / Neal Curtis -- Creating 'the perfect body' : a variable project / Lee Monaghan -- Body modification, self-mutilation and agency in media accounts of a subculture / Victoria Pitts -- Tattoos and heroin : a literary approach / Kevin McCarron -- Performing the technoscientific body : real video surgery and the anatomy theater / Eugene Thacker.