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Project name re: skin
Organisation
Persons Mary Flanagan
City Buffalo
Country (USA)
Period 2002
URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11002
Tags skin, book, publication, body, technology, vision,
Text In re: skin, scholars, essayists and short story writers offer their perspectives on skin's boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality. The twenty-first century and its attendant technology call for a new investigation of the intersection of body, skin, and technology. These cutting-edge writings address themes of skin and bodily transformation in an era in which we are able not only to modify our own skins by plastic surgery, tattooing, skin graft art, and other methods but to cross skins, merging with other bodies or colonizing multiple bodies.