Grinding Culture and Body Shop-ping

CBC Ideas’ Beauty&the Freak:

Participants in the program:

Tim Cannon is a software programmer and a co-founder of Grind House Wetwares, an organization interested in DIY body modification.

Chad Crittendon is an amputee advocate and Beta-testser for 3-D Systems and Bespoke Innovations. He was also a contestant on Survivor.

Dr. Katherine Hayles is professor of English literature at Duke University. Her specialities are 20 and 21st-century relations of science, technology and literature, including science fiction.

Dr. Naomi Morgenstern is professor of English literature at the University of Toronto. Her specialities are 19th and 20th-century American Literature, gender studies and psychoanalytic theory.

Dr. Ivo Pitanguy is a cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon. He is the founder of Clinica Ivo Pitanguy, a teaching hospital and patient care centre in Brazil

Erik Sprague, also know as “The Lizardman,” is a professional freak and works in body-based performance art.