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1. Verena Kuni «Mythical Bodies II. Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation in the imagination space of technological (re)production (II): The promises of monsters and posthuman anthropomorphisms» features their identity and through which humans communicate with their environment. Their allegories on the virtues «Faith, Honor, and Beauty» (1992) also appear to have paid a dear price as modern embodiments of these ideals: like mannequins, their [more] |
2. Yvonne Volkart «Monstrous Bodies: The Disarranged Gender Body as an Arena for Monstrous Subject Relations» but in a more general way to a world in which the sights are set on the end of the individual through biopolitics. In both «Faith, Honor and Beauty» (1992) by the artist duo Aziz & Cucher and Inez van Lamsweerde's photoseries «Thank you Thighmaster» [more] |