Bringing a lively & accessible style to a complex subject Cyborgs & Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of the posthuman & the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Mansons digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK baby adverts & from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously plastic form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll controversially rescued here from her negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard Donna Haraway & Rosi Braidotti " Cyborgs & Barbie Dolls" explores the nature of the human
- & its ambiguous gender
- in an age of biotechnologies & digital worlds."