"This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to how these two concepts are interlinked and emphasizes the ways the beautiful and the monstrous pervade human experience. The two notions are explored through the axis of human transformation, focusing on body, identity and gender, while questioning both how humans transform their body and space as well as how humans themselves are gradually transformed in different contexts. The pandemic, gender crisis, moral crisis, sociocultural instability, and environmental issues have redefinedbeauty and the relationship we have with it. Exploring these concepts through the lens of human transformation can yield valuable insights into what it means to be human in a world of constant change. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, archaeology, philosophy, architecture, and cultural studies"--
This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to how these two concepts are interlinked and emphasize the ways the beautiful and the monstrous pervade human experience.
The two notions are explored through the axis of human transformation, focusing on body, identity and gender, while questioning both how humans transform their body and space as well as how humans themselves are gradually transformed in different contexts. The pandemic, gender crisis, moral crisis, sociocultural instability, and environmental issues have redefined beauty and the relationship we have with it. Exploring these concepts through the lens of human transformation can yield valuable insights into what it means to be human in a world of constant change.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, archaeology, philosophy, architecture, and cultural studies.
This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies?
INTRODUCTION 1 PRELUDE The Garden: A Topological View 2 THE ANCIENT
HUMAN: Retracing the Past 2a. An Exquisite Appearance, a Beautiful Mind?
Thinking of Platos Charmides in Plutarchs Life of Demetrius 2b. A
Beautys Letter and the Beasts: Ariadnes Heroidian Epistle (Ov. Her. 10)
2c. Infernal Women: Polysemic Winged Figures in Etruscan Art. 3 ON
OTHERNESS: A New Kind of Body 3a. Bodies of Hybridity: Animal, Cyborg, and
the Supernatural Becoming 3b. Teratological Machine in the Female Body: the
Hottentot Venus as Beauty-and-the-Beast From a Decolonial Feminist
Perspective 3c. Female Body, Disgust, and the Erotic Redefined: The
Dialectic Mindshaping 4 HYBRIDITIES: New Genres and Contexts 4a.
Anthropogarde of Stage, Cult, and the Popular: Co-ritus, Labyrinths,
Actions 4b. The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Africanfuturist
fiction 4c. Beauties and Beasts; A Personal Lens to the Backstage of
Story-creation 5 PERFORMING THE HUMAN: Metamorphosis in Art 5a. WHEN
UGLINESS IS TURNED INTO ORGANS OF SEDUCTION 5b. ReWired, ReMixed, and
ReImagined: An Interview with Stelarc 6 TECHNOLOGY VS CANONIZATION:
Alternative Ontologies and Crossing Boundaries 6a. Creating Life: An Embryo
Assembly Line 6b. Art of the AIs, By the AIs, For the Arts Sake. 6c.
RobotsSigns of Disruption 7 SPATIAL ONTOLOGIES: Space and Human
Transformation 7a. Architectural Representation as a Body without Organs
7b. Exploring the Urban Jungle: Making Space for Wildness in Cities 8 THE
END OF THE HUMAN: Death and Reflections into Morbidity 8a. The Aesthetics of
Hollowed Experience: Benjamin, Ensor, James 8b. Desiring the Zombie 8c.
Medusa, Monstrous Beauty, and Neuroaesthetics 9 CODA Truth, Beauty, and
Hungry Monsters 10 UN-ENDING Portrait of a Transforming Human
Chara Kokkiou is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, Department of Philosophy, with interdisciplinary academic interests in ancient philosophy, bioethics, and classics and a primary research focus on compassion.
Angeliki Malakasioti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University, with artistic and research activity in the fields of digital space and culture, audio-visual representations, new technologies, and creative methodologies.
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