The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body

Introduction; Z.Detsi-Diamanti , K.Kitsi-Mitakou & E.Yiannopoulou PART I: DISINTERGRATING BODIES 'The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry'; E.Douka-Kabitoglou 'The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now'; T.Laqueur 'Landscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript'; S.Patsalidis 'Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary US Society'; C.Linden PART II: ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MUTATING FLESH 'Chuck Palaniuk and the Violence of Beauty'; E.Bronfen 'Eye, Agency and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer In and Through Images'; K.Kontturi 'Fantastic 4body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-book Culture'; C.Dokou 'Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art'; E.Bartlem PART III: POSTHUMAN ENFLESHMENTS 'Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema'; N.Rehling 'Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine'; D.Pastourmatzi 'Modernity and the 'Other Body': The Human Contract with Mute Animality'; R.Braidotti 'Meta(l)flesh; L.Williams