{"product_id":"chimera-marco-mancuso-9781835952412","title":"Chimera: The Expanded Body for a New Ecosophy of the Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003eReimagines the human relationship with technoscience and environment, offering fresh, non-hierarchical and ethical perspectives beyond dystopian futures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Exploring the evolving relationship between the human body, technoscience, and the environment, \u003cem\u003eChimera\u003c\/em\u003e introduces the concept of the \"expanded body\" as a transdisciplinary meeting point between art, design, technology, and science. Through a critical examination of developments such as biomechanics, prosthetics, body hacking, and biotechnology, the book investigates how these innovations alter our bodily, sensory, and cognitive capacities. Providing a unique methodological systematization of the main ecological and posthuman philosophy theories, it argues for a new framework in which the human is deeply entangled with both human and nonhuman elements in a shared environment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Building on ideas from both past and present-ranging from twentieth-century research to current discussions in neuroscience, design, and media theory-\u003cem\u003eChimera\u003c\/em\u003e offers a thoughtful response to common fears about futures driven by technology and science. Instead of imagining a world dominated by machines or centered only on human needs, the book imagines fluid, queer, and nonhierarchical relational models between human bodies and the environment. Essential reading for scholars and students in contemporary art, new media, science and technology studies, and environmental and posthuman studies, \u003cem\u003eChimera\u003c\/em\u003e also speaks to a wider audience interested in how technology and science is reshaping our understanding of life, identity, and ethical coexistence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marco Mancuso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835952410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835952412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Intellect (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Marco Mancuso","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48437536391423,"sku":"9781835952412","price":114.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49781e84-ca27-4b16-afbd-483c88c92e00.jpg?v=1777162487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chimera-marco-mancuso-9781835952412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}