Encompassing some of the most recent academic research on mainstream issues of body image, weight and representation of the body, this collection addresses the body in areas such as ancient Greek poetry, new media art, comic book culture and biotechnology.

Introduction; Z.Detsi-Diamanti , K.Kitsi-Mitakou &  E.Yiannopoulou PART I: DISINTERGRATING BODIES 'The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry'; E.Douka-Kabitoglou 'The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now'; T.Laqueur 'Landscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript'; S.Patsalidis 'Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary US Society'; C.Linden PART II: ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF MUTATING FLESH 'Chuck Palaniuk and the Violence of Beauty'; E.Bronfen 'Eye, Agency and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer In and Through Images'; K.Kontturi 'Fantastic 4body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-book Culture'; C.Dokou 'Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art'; E.Bartlem PART III: POSTHUMAN ENFLESHMENTS 'Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema'; N.Rehling 'Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine'; D.Pastourmatzi 'Modernity and the 'Other Body': The Human Contract with Mute Animality'; R.Braidotti 'Meta(l)flesh; L.Williams