Introduction PART 1 - An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Human Body Chapter 1. The Body and Technological-Scientific Research Companies, institutes and research centres The investigation of soma: Biotechnology, bodyhacking and nanotechnology Between senses and the brain: Neuroscience, neural interfaces and artificial intelligence Chapter 2. The Body in Design, between Organic and Artificial Embodiment and phenomenology of interaction Wearable and prosthetic technologies Bio-inspired design Chapter 3. The Extended Body of Art The mechanised human being Body art between expansions and technoperformance The post-organic subject Chapter 4. Between Art, Design, Technology and Science In the dialogue between disciplines The contemporary debate An interrelated and anti-disciplinary vision Conclusions to Part I PART 2 - Toward Entangled Thinking: The Body in Dialogue with Context Chapter 5. From the Human Phenomenon to the Posthuman The redemption of different: Cyborgs, monsters, companion species and queer bodies Matter vitalism: Non-human agency between ANT and New Materialism Causality in the making: New ecologies between Realism and OOO Chapter 6. Comparing Theories in Technoscience Manipulation of the living Design of bodies Cognitive extension Chapter 7. The Expanded Body Morphological, sensory and cognitive properties The relationship with the context Aesthetic, design and cultural elements Conclusions to Part 2 PART 3 - The Expanded Body in the Contemporary Art Scene Chapter 8.
A Multifaceted Scenario Experimentation and production between art and design Major international exhibitions and events Art Industries and production networks Chapter 9. Media Lab and Hybrid Forms of Knowledge Interdisciplinary collaborative practices Shared knowledge and practices Citizen Lab and community platforms Chapter 10. Chimera: Practices, Aesthetics and Imaginaries Frontier artists and designers Points of contact and divergence for common practice The Expanded Body for a New Ecosophy of the Arts Conclusions to Part 3 Acknowledgements Bibliography.