Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up ′the body′ for sociological research. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today′s issues of the body in modern life, community and politics. John O′Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: · articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
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... that the present offering can only hope to strike a chord here and there with those who still work towards a future that exceeds the grasp of our greedy present. Introduction The Prosthetic God We love to wear machines – xiii Preface.
Re-figuring Relationships John O′Neill. Introduction. The Prosthetic God We love to wear machines – anything from ... gods, we lack any perspective on the divinity of our machines. The more they kill us, the more we turn to them for ...
... god. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but these organs have not grown on him and ... gods, and so I am less inclined to abuse them with the faults of our modern technological fixation. Rather, I am ...
... God. This may seem odd but, so we are told, it is better looked upon as an exciting opportunity – supposing we survive the invitation to social and moral chaos. We do, more or less. But I think we survive by living off borrowed moral ...
... God Amma threw the stars out into space, so he threw from his hand a lump of clay that fell and flattened out in the shape of a woman's body. The anthill is the sexual organ of the world's body and its clitoris is a termite hill. Being ...
Contents
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Social Bodies | 22 |
The Body Politic | 37 |
Consumer Bodies | 54 |
Medical Bodies | 66 |
Conclusion The Future Shape of Human Beings | 79 |
Bibliography | 89 |
Index | 95 |