Extending McLuhan into the New Media Age: An Introduction p. 1 -- The Cyborg Links -- High-Tech Frankenstein, or Heidegger Meets Stelarc p. 15 -- The Human/Not Human in the Work of Orlan and Stelarc p. 33 -- Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages p. 56 -- Towards a Compliant Coupling: Pneumatic Projects, 1998-2001 p. 73 -- The Obsolete Body? -- What Does an Avatar Want? Stelarc's E-motions p. 81-- Planned Obsolescence: Flying into the Future with Stelarc p. 101 -- Probings: An Interview with Stelarc p. 114 -- Para-Site p. 131 -- Self-hybridation -- Morlan p. 149 -- The Virtual and/or the Real p. 168 -- Anger, Art and Medicine: Working with Orlan p. 172 -- Aesthetics and Ethics: Technological Perspectives -- In Defence of Prefigurative Art: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Orlan and Stelarc p. 181 -- Ph/autography and the Art of Life: Gillian Wearing's Ethical Realism p. 193 -- 'The Future ... Is Monstrous': Prosthetics as Ethics p. 214 -- Name Index p. 237.