How Long to Read Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 35 minutes to read Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture by Francisco Ortega

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture engages the confusions and contradictions in current attitudes to, and practices of, the body. On the one hand, the body is where we turn for the certainties of nature; yet, on the other, it is the locus of a desire for permanent transformation and for constant reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and despised: so that now it has come to constitute not just an object of desire, but an object of design. Addressing practices of corporeal ascesis- such as bodybuilding and dietetics - medical technologies - such as plastic surgery, prosthetics, and pharmacological interventions - and radical anatomical modifications- such as voluntary amputations, Francisco Ortega analyses how the body has become a screen for the projection of our ideas and imaginings about ourselves; and has also been turned into an object of suspicion, fear, anxiety, insecurity and discomfort. From the disembodied ideal of the digital purity of models - in which every little piece of fat is digitally eliminated - through the disembodiment implicit in social constructivist rejections of materiality, to the various projects of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and posthumanism, Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture documents the ambiguous legacy of a western theoretical tradition that has always despised the body"--

How long is Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture?

Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture by Francisco Ortega is 213 pages long, and a total of 53,889 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture?

Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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