Table of Contents

I The Cyborg Links 1. High-tech Frankenstein, or Heidegger meets Stelarc, Mark Poster. 2. The Human/Not Human in the work of Orlan and Stelarc, Julie Clarke. 3. Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages, Meredith Jones and Zoe Sofla. 4. Towards a Compliant Coupling: Pneumatic Projects 1998-2001, Stelarc. II The Obsolete Body? 5. What does an Avatar Want?: Stelarc's E-motions, Edward Scheer. 6. Planned Obsolescence: Flying into the Future wiht Stelarc, John Appleby. 7. Probings: an Interview with Stelarc, Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall. 8. Para-Site, Gary Hall. III Self-hybridation. 9. Morlan, Fred Botting and Scott Willson. 10. The Virtual and/or the Real, Orlan. 11. Anger, Art and Medicine: Working with Orlan, Rachel Armstrong. IV Aesthetics and Ethics: Technological Perspectives. 12. In Defence of Prefigurative Art: the Aesthetics and Ethics of Orlan and Stelarc, Chris Hables Gray. 13. Photography and the Art of Life: Gillian Wearing's Ethical Realism, Jay Prosser. 14. 'The future...is monstrous': Prosthetics as Ethics, Joanna Zylinska.

About the Author

Joanna Zylinska is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton and author of On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: The Feminine and the Sublime.