Top-class sport prosthesis, individually adapted running shoes and Google glasses are only a few examples of several cultural symbolisations that seem to suggest the increasing presence of the bodies nowadays which do not simply conform to organic originality but urge to be conceived as “bodies 2.0”. In her recent essay Körper 2.0 the professor for cultural studies at the University of arts in Linz, Karin Harrasser, gets to the bottom of enhanced, optimised and marketed bodies that witness the symbiotic coexisting of technology and/on the human body. Karin Harrasser only at first glance seems to follow the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, who recognises these body modifications and optimisations as “anthropotechnics ” differentiated in ...
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Biopotentiation is many things; in every known era there have been people actively engaged in improv...
Anti-doping policy is one of the most important international sport policies. Yet its justification ...
In much research dealing with sport technologies and the process of cyborgification there is a signi...
In this interview Karin Harrasser, author of a recently published book, entitled ‘The Body 2.0’, dis...
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic not only revealed new public possibilities for the disable...
Oscar Pistorius is a Paralympic bionic leg runner and record holder in the 100, 200, and 400 meters ...
Sport Technology: History, Philosophy and Technology arrives at a crucial time for the ethical consi...
A review of Alan Petersen, The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach (Routledge, London, 2006)
Author: Kéri Katalin | Title: European Panorama of Body Image and Physical Education: Corporeal Turn...
Technological developments for disabled athletes may facilitate their competition in standard elite ...
Technology can increasingly give us the possibility of overcoming our physical limitations, of exten...
For a long time, the history of sports has tended to limit its interest to sport’s inherent structur...
[Extract] Ian Brittain's motivation in writing this text was to offer informed information and data ...
The capabilities of postmodern biotechnology inevitably lead to questioning if it is morally accepta...
In 2012, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius became the first double amputee to compete in both t...
Biopotentiation is many things; in every known era there have been people actively engaged in improv...
Anti-doping policy is one of the most important international sport policies. Yet its justification ...
In much research dealing with sport technologies and the process of cyborgification there is a signi...