ABSTRACT
The Gioconda dissection was a story played out in the Greek media, but it was reported all over the world and predictably engaged a transnational coterie of medical experts making their contribution to the autopsy. As transnationalized information transfers grew huge, the bodies of information consumers were instructed to shrink. Under the emerging transnational order enclosed space becomes a structural uncertainty, and panoptical penetration of the body occurs in a post-institutional and open-ended space. Fast capitalism has inscribed new forms of uncertainty and insecurity in the experience of embodiment expressed as fears of transnational disease and body defects and the utopian hopes of aesthetic surgery. The discussion of ethnic violence is about failed erotics of social life that degenerated into thanatos. Violence is failed eros and failed sexuality; reproduction shifts from infants to corpses. In this context, Grandma’s model, in which eros is the fluidity and exchange of bodies, is under suspicion.
