image file "Visible Human Project, the first full computer, three-dimensional anatomical and a corpse, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine U.S..
Before you start blogging about mono- Soft Power (the program of the 2010 edition is now online, so you have seen, what have you been?), A confession, as the title I have become necrophiliac. My new obsession is embodied in the text "Looking at a corpse," a guided tour (and eminently macabre) in the catalog of the art video distribution Hammock. And you start emphasizing texts of Donna Haraway and do not know where it ends. Watching
body
animals when they die, and do it anywhere: in the pan, in the bumper, on the soles of his shoes are dead no more: a dead crab, a dead bird dead snail, but dry dead, dead without category. Human beings, however, the death becomes a privileged status: the corpse. The theme the body has been widely discussed in the world of art, literature, cinema has inspired musical genres, subcultures and extreme sexual practices. But our relationship with him is still marked by the desire to eliminate it. From ancient civilizations to today, have developed techniques, the administrative machinery, little rituals, but little else. All mortuary Western culture is organized around a single goal. Settle the memory of that or yes of life that is its finitude, erasing traces of its most crude: the lifeless body of those who have gone the other way. I search the catalog
Hammock as a detective, looking cold cuts, or more accurately, seeking to unravel the visual treatment strategies thereof. If the most widespread are of a ritual, fiction and administrative, with the advance of modern technology and mechanical biomedical visualization, imaging, digital-analog and then the body, as we shall see, it begins to shed its materiality conditions to become data file. [Read]
body
animals when they die, and do it anywhere: in the pan, in the bumper, on the soles of his shoes are dead no more: a dead crab, a dead bird dead snail, but dry dead, dead without category. Human beings, however, the death becomes a privileged status: the corpse. The theme the body has been widely discussed in the world of art, literature, cinema has inspired musical genres, subcultures and extreme sexual practices. But our relationship with him is still marked by the desire to eliminate it. From ancient civilizations to today, have developed techniques, the administrative machinery, little rituals, but little else. All mortuary Western culture is organized around a single goal. Settle the memory of that or yes of life that is its finitude, erasing traces of its most crude: the lifeless body of those who have gone the other way. I search the catalog
Hammock as a detective, looking cold cuts, or more accurately, seeking to unravel the visual treatment strategies thereof. If the most widespread are of a ritual, fiction and administrative, with the advance of modern technology and mechanical biomedical visualization, imaging, digital-analog and then the body, as we shall see, it begins to shed its materiality conditions to become data file. [Read]
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