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Contents
Introduction. Medial Bodies. Fictions, Facts and the Reinvention of Corporeality
I. Hybrid Bodies
Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015)
Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity
Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia
The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans
II. Bodies Unbound: Disability, Ability, Enhancement

From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse
Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins
The Protean Self
Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction
III. Corporeal Interfaces
The Cinematic Body. A reflection on the status of the sentient body in film theory
Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body
Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research

The Aberrant Medial Body. Visual Representations of Self-Harming Behavior on Social Network Sites
List of Authors