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Article: Raymond Federman. My Body in Nine Parts.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- September 22, 2005
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Raymond Federman. My Body in Nine Parts. Starcherone Books, 2005. 133 pp. Paper: $16.00.
Just as there was a space- or atomic-age perspective, it might easily be said that we now look at the world through the lens of biology. This is especially true after the watershed that was Dolly the Sheep, when advances in biotechnique made many people rethink individuality and the self in terms of the body. Witness artists like John Coplands, whose large-format photos of his own aging body seem to exist in order to force viewers to see, to bear witness to the aging landscape that his flesh has become. Likewise, Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget records the minutiae of his body's ...