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A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma
(techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body
in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma
to the ‘natural’ body, this volume explicitly narrows down the
discussion of the technical and the natural to the physiological
body. In doing so, the present collection focuses on body
technologies in the specific form of beautification and body
enhancement techniques, as well as medical and surgical treatments.
The volume elucidates two main points. Firstly, ancient techno
bodies show that the categories of gender and sexuality are at the
core of the intersection of the natural and the technical, and
intersect with notions of race, age, speciesism, class and
education, and dis/ability. Secondly, the collection argues that
new body technologies have in fact a very ancient history that can
help to address the challenges of contemporary technological
innovation. To this end, the volume showcases the intersection of
‘natural’ bodies with technology, gender, sexuality and
reproduction. On the one hand, techno bodies tend to align with
normative ideas about gender, and sexuality. On the other hand,
body modification and/or enhancement techniques work hand in hand
with economic and political power and knowledge, thus they often
produce techno bodies that are shaped according to individual
needs, i.e. according to a certain lifestyle. Consequently, techno
bodies threaten to alter traditional ideas of masculinity,
femininity, male and female sexuality and beauty.
"The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence
in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's
discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a
definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this
research challenges the reader with some open questions: who is
Clytemnestra? Where is justice if a mother dies? By reading the
play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a
narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother
figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role
of Clytemnestra. It also breaks silence among scholars, who have
generally portrayed Clytemnestra as the bad mother who kills the
children's father and as the bad wife who betrays her husband.
The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to
be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the
natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks
what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman
studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human
self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to
animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its
widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves,
classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between
the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human
with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and
hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or
mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive
collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving
into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration
of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities
around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and
the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference.
The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to
be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the
natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks
what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman
studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human
self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to
animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its
widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves,
classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between
the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human
with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and
hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or
mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive
collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving
into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration
of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities
around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and
the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference.
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