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This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy, to Foucault’s “birth of the clinic” and the institutionalised construction of a “medical gaze”; from “visual” archives of madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media representations.
Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect.
Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, Stef Lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.
Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect.
Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, Stef Lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.
This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anato...
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Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publications include Stellenlektüre.Stifter.Foucault (2001), Texte über Bilder. Zur Gegenwart der Renaissance (2014). He is co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. She has published widely on German travel writing and expeditions reports, contemporary German fiction, psychoanalytic theory and psychiatric art, as well as on psychosis and writing. She is the author of Das fremde Ich. Begegnungen im pazifisch-australischen Raum (2015) and the co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies.
Axel Fliethmann is Associate Professor in European Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has published widely on media philology and visual cultures. His publication...
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