100 000 years of beauty. [Vol. 5], Future - projections

FUTURE/PROJECTIONS
Mona Lisa and me . . 7

COSMOPOLITENESS
Nomads of identity . . 14
The generic city . . 19
Inside views . . 22
Towards an ethical cosmopolitanism . . 24
The colours of statistics . . 26
Where am I? . . 28
Self-hybridisations . . 32
How many am I? . . 34
Metamorphoses . . 36
The street . . 38
I love the world . . 39
Baroquisms . . 40
Do-it-yourself aesthetics . . 42

HYPERNARCISSUS
Ego building . . 48
Take care of yourself . . 51
Who are you? . . 53
Fat car . . 58
Fly or Dye . . 60
Bling Bling . . 62
Hyper-individuals . . 65
Extreme makeovers . . 66
Tattooed on the bone . . 70
Body-art . . 72
The exoskeleton . . 74
Suffer for me . . 76
The Institute of Genetic Beauty . . 78
The transparent body . . 80
The perfect health . . 82
Bioasceticism . . 84
Open-air museum . . 90
Homo vegetarius . . 92
How to become grass? How to become a tree? . . 95

THE THIRD SEX
Feminine/Masculine . . 100
Virtual women . . 104
Alter Ego . . 106
The artificial womb . . 111
Cross-casting . . 115
Intersexualities . . 116
Androgyny, the future of mankind? . . 118
Androgynies . . 120
Reinventing male beauty . . 122
Be a man . . 123
Generalised sensuality . . 125
At a crossroads . . 127
He/She . . 128
Stereotypes no more . . 130
A future for the 'fair sex' . . 132

AMORTALITY
Eternalising the self . . 138
The heroes are worn out . . 148
A virtual solution to ageing? . . 150
Positive ageing . . 152
Mature . . 156
Growing old is not for sissies . . 158
Seduction, always . . 160
Sculpting time . . 162

CYBER SAPIENS
A farewell to bodies? . . 166
Mutant Manifesto . . 171
A cyborg manifesto . . 176
The Posthuman condition . . 178
The'super'-abled . . 182
Sympathetic electronics . . 188
Alien body . . 190
Primo +3M, a posthuman prototype . . 192
Nexus Project I . . 196
The genius factory . . 204
Letter from Utopia . . 209

General Index . . 213