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