The Cyborg experiments : the extensions of the body in the media age / edited by Joanna Zylinska.

London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.

xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Extending McLuhan into the new media age: an introduction / Joanna Zylinska -- The cyborg links -- High-tech Frankenstein, or Heidegger meets Stelarc / Mark Poster -- The human/not human in the work of Orlan and Stelarc / Julie Clarke -- Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages / Meredith Jones and Zoë Sofia -- Towards a compliant coupling: pneumatic projects, 1998-2001 / Stelarc -- The obsolete body? -- What does an avatar want? Stelarc's E-motions / Edward Scheer -- Planned obsolescence: flying into the future with Stelarc / John Appleby -- Probings: an interview with Stelarc / Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall -- Para-site / Gary Hall -- Self-hybridation -- Morlan / Fred Botting and Scott Wilson -- The virtual and/or the real / Orlan -- Anger, art and medicine: working with Orlan / Rachel Armstrong -- Aesthetics and ethics: technological perspectives -- In defence of prefigurative art: the aesthetics and ethics of Orlan and Stelarc / Chris Hables Gray -- Ph/autography and the art of life: Gillian Wearing's ethical realism / Jay Prosser -- 'The future ... Is monstrous': prosthetics as ethics / Joanna Zylinska.

Includes bibliographical references and index.