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The mutant flesh : fabrication of a posthuman / Denis Baron ; translated from the French by Paul Buck & Catherine Petit.
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- ISBN: 9782914563420
- ISBN: 2914563426
- Physical Description: 95 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Paris : Éditions Dis Voir, c2009.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Postulate -- Technology of the flesh -- The mutant flesh : matters and identities -- Cultural construction of the mutation.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N72 .B5 B376 2009 (Text) | 30221487 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
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In recent years, new technologies have generated a cultural and cognitive revolution that has changed our relationship with the world.
That theme of the mutant body undermines more than it appears our definition of human identity, more so for today technologies touch at the essence of man and his future by interfering with the living. That theme of the mutant body undermines more than it appears our definition of human identity, more so for today technology touch at the essence of man and his future by interfering with the living. That "biotech" era questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries, its possibilities, and examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine. That "biotech" era us questions on the limits of the human, its boundaries, its possibilities, and examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine.
For us, the living beings of yesterday still present in that new fabric of tomorrow's world, our story of human kind as a biologic genre no longer allows us to think the world in its present state. For us, the living beings of yesterday still present in that new fabric of tomorrow's world, our story of human kind as a biologic gender no longer allows us to think the world in its present state.
Using various means, artists are questioning with irony and determination that vertigo of a self-discipline that makes the body an object to reconfigure again and again. Using various means, artists are questioning with irony that vertigo and determination of a self-discipline that makes the body an object to reconfigure again and again. From the declination of a body in disuse to its reconfiguration as flesh, they open up a reflection to counteract the ancestral fears of a world in mutation, and to reveal not its lacks, but its potentialities. From the declination of a body in disuse as to its reconfiguration flesh, they open up a reflection to counteract the ancestral fears of a world in mutation, and not to reveal its lacks, but its potentialities.
The Mutant Flesh: Fabrication of a Posthuman - shows that in order to think today, one needs to know how to conjugate the power of the imaginary and to question art as a laboratory where a reconfiguration of the tangible is created in order to perceive that something belonging to human 'nature' is mutating. The Mutant Flesh: Fabrication of a posthuman - shows that in order to think today, one needs to know how to conjugate the power of the imaginary and to question art as a laboratory where a reconfiguration of the tangible is created in order to perceive that something belonging to human 'nature' is mutating. - Distributed Art Pub Inc
In recent years, new technologies have generated cultural and cognitive revolutions that have changed our relationships to our bodies and the world. In this volume, author, photographer and film critic Denis Baron reflects on the body--the fabrication of a post-human, mutations of human nature--in our counter-culture and Contemporary art.