Biotourism: inner space and popular culture

This project explores our fantastical relation to inner body space as it unfolds in the mass media culture of the post-war period to the present. Coffee table books, magazines, films, and television shows depict the movement of the eye through the body, but also promise spectators that they can enter into its stubborn recesses. As such, the what was formerly hidden from vision is now presented as a form of imagined travel through ‘inner space’ typically envisioned in terms that echo Edmund Burke’s definition of the sublime as an affective instance of agreeable horror.