Technologies of the body
Technologies of the body
In exploring technologies of the body, TfC researchers interrogate the ways in which the body is and has been constituted, manipulated, mutilated, recreated, digitalized, in studies of
- gender and sexuality
- cosmetic manipulation and gender reassignment
- the re-creation of the body through digital technologies
Exploring technologies of the body means asking basic questions about
- the meaning of the body in the age of virtuality and the nature of the posthuman
- the role of the senses in constituting the world we perceive, create and experience
- the relationship between body and mind in the negociation of the individual human subject
- the politics and ethics of body manipulation
- the deployment of the human senses by new technologies
TfC Projects in this area include
- Anne Cranny-Francis, Skin Jobs: Biopolitics, Embodiement and Haptic Technologies
- Meredith Jones, Sun, Sea, Sand and Silicone: aesthetic surgery tourism
- Catherine Robinson, NextGen: the next generation of Australian affordable housing for urban neighbourhoods
- Catherine Robinson, Rough Living: Homeless People's Survival of Violence
- Katrina Schlunke, Effects of Gender on Australian English Language Teachers in Japan
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