Author: Bernadette Wegenstein File Type: pdf Tracing the evolution of contemporary body discourse Getting Under the Skin analyzes the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture. The body as an object of critical study dominates disciplines across the humanities to such an extent that a new discipline has emerged body criticism. In Getting Under the Skin, Bernadette Wegenstein traces contemporary body discourse in philosophy and cultural studies to its roots in twentieth-century thought -- showing how psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cognitive science, and feminist theory contributed to a new body concept -- and studies the millennial body in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture. Wegenstein shows how the concept of bodily fragmentation has been in circulation since the sixteenth centurys investigation of anatomy. The history of the body-in-pieces, she argues, is a history of a struggling relationship between two concepts of the body -- as fragmented and as holistic. Wegenstein shows that by the twentieth century these two apparently contradictory movements were integrated both fragmentation and holism, she argues, are indispensable modes of imagining and configuring the body. The history of the body, therefore, is a history of mediation but it was not until the turn of the twenty-first century and the digital revolution that the body was best able to show its mediality. After examining key concepts in body criticism, Wegenstein looks at the body as raw material in twentieth-century performance art, medical techniques for visualizing the human body, and strategies in popular culture for getting under the skin with images of freely floating body parts. Her analysis of current trends in architecture and new media art demonstrates the deep connection of body criticism to media criticism. In this approach to body criticism, the body no longer stands in for something else -- the medium has become the body. **

Author: Lorna Crozier File Type: epub Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canadas most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor Generals Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on her eight major collections and includes many of the poems for which she is justly celebrated, Croziers trademark investigations of family, spirituality, loves fierce attachments, and bereavement and loss have been given a new framework. As a sapphire generates a blue light from within, The Blue Hour of the Day demonstrates Croziers dazzling capacity to bring depths to light, unfailingly and unflinchingly. It represents the best work of an icon of Canadian poetry. From the Trade Paperback edition.**ReviewWhat a joy to have a volume of selected poems by this marvelous Canadian poet, storyteller, truth-teller, visionary. Ursula K Le Guin, New York Times Book Review One of the most original poets alive. . . . Books in Canada Croziers fans have come to expect graceful clarity, sly humour, a strong affinity for the animal world and a subversive feminist tilt to the mirror she holds up to human affairs. *Toronto Star Lorna Croziers The Blue Hour of the Day reads like one long autobiographical poem of astonishing coherence and beauty, and so powerful that, after Id closed the book, I found that Id unwittingly learnt several of the lines by heart. - Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement* Books of the Year From the Trade Paperback edition.About the Author Lorna Crozier has published fifteen books of poetry, including The Blue Hour of the Day Selected Poems Whetstone Apocrypha of Light What the Living Wont Let Go A Saving Grace Everything Arrives at the Light Inventing the Hawk Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence and The Garden Going On Without Us. She has also edited several anthologies, among them Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted Notes from the Belly of the Beast and Breathing Fire Canadas New Poets. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she now lives in British Columbia, where she teaches at the University of Victoria.