Introduction : it is at the level of the body that we proceed
Corporeal punishment : the body as agent (provocateur)
Écorché style : David Foster Wallace's anatomical poetics
Frantic pistons and yielding curves : gender and the (com)modification of desire
Hideously defective : disfigurement, disability, and "crip humour"
Weak evils : the ageing body
So much vapor aloft : drugs, (idio-)disincarnation, and idio-metempsychosis.