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- Title
Out of Body Transgressions.
- Authors
CARNARIU, Radu
- Abstract
This research focuses on the discovery of new connections for extending the framework of analysis and understanding of corporeality, at the intersection of art, philosophy and science, in this "era of media convergence" (Paul Martin Lester). The introduction outlines some important considerations in the context of contemporary debates on this topic, indicating, from the perspective of body art, at least three significant artistic attitudes for transgressing the physical, mental, cultural and technological limits of the human body, situation that contribute to the expansion of the concept of body transgression, considering the highly influential background of the bio-philosophical ideology of transhumanism. First of all, based on the some relevant explanations (Philbeck), some conceptual and terminological delimitations of terms such as posthuman or transhuman are presented, because, in the opinion of the mentioned author, they still cause confusion in various contexts of their use. Next, the research addresses various perspectives on the relationship between identity, mind, body and technology, analyzing concepts such as augments and/versus normals and the political and social implications of body enhancement (Frodeman), new nanotechnological enhanced body (Kurtzweil), or accessibility and equity, in the wider context of redefining the frameworks for both utopian/dystopian scenarios towards a possible bio-technological democracy (Haraway, Kornwachs), in connection with other correlative concepts such as the therapy versus enhancement dilemma, from an ethical point of view (Bryant) or the 'medial body' as a 'transitional environment' from 'fiction' to 'faction'(Butnaru) towards new dimensions of cyborg corporeality in terms of 'transhuman body' or 'posthuman body' (Ferrando).
- Subjects
DILEMMA; IDEOLOGY; RESEARCH ethics; SOCIAL impact; BODY art; TRANSHUMANISM; HUMAN body; CYBORGS
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2022, Issue 28, p74
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article