Tattoo TV, Postmodernism, and the Crisis of Representation

A couple weeks ago I stumbled across this image of a “Where’s Waldo?” backpiece, and it got me to thinking about body modification, the cyborg body, and postmodern theories of the sign (Baudrillard 1972; Turner 1999) as they relate to contemporary tattooing. The contemporary tattoooed body, which I often refer to as the cyborg body, … Continue reading Tattoo TV, Postmodernism, and the Crisis of Representation