Author: BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

• Book release: La norme du corps hybride

  I am delighted to announce the release of the book (in French) La norme du corps hybride, drawn from my thesis in Cultural and Biological Anthropology (QUT, Brisbane and CNRS, France). The book is nicely illustrated by the physician Mélanie Sustersic. You will find few illustrations as attachments. The book addresses fundamental topics with regard…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  May 6, 2016

  Art, Artificial limbs, Artificial organs, Augmented reality, Bionic body, Brain-Machine Interface, Comic strip, Haptic technology, Hermaphrodisme, Intersex, medical enhancement, medical reconstruction, Philosophy, Publication, Sex and gender diverse (SDG), Sport, techies, Techniques and technologies, Transhumanisme

• FORUM in Health – Connected bodies

  Vers un homme augmenté?/ Towards an augmented body? Illustration: Frise temporelle, Mélanie Sustersic (La Norme du corps hybride, Harmattan, 2015) Article Libération en ligne “Vers un corps augmenté ?” J. Nicogossian L’hybride soulève des controverses, car si la reconstruction et l’amélioration du corps de l’homme semble souhaitable, une aide fournie à un public handicapé pour…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  November 13, 2015

  Bionic body, Brain-Machine Interface, medical enhancement, Philosophy, techies, Techniques and technologies, Transhumanisme

  bionic body, brain-machine interface, enhancement, exponential medicine, Philosophie, reconstruction and augmentation; hybrid body

• Exponential medicine

      THE TECHIES AND EXPONENTIAL MEDICINE A brain-machine interface (BMI) is a system comprising a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. Designing better interfaces: skin-like electronics (Dr John Rogers, University of Illinois, 2011) [1] [2]. This is a very important step towards developing the use of brain-machine interfaces in Health.…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  March 2, 2015

  Brain-Machine Interface, medical enhancement, techies, Transhumanisme

  auto-santé, brain-machine interface, exponential medicine, Health, techies, transhumanism

• Comic strip n°5 _ Lilou the hybrid model

    VISUAL PROJECT With this artwork I explore the scientific researches and debates that are at stake with the hybrid body, from the military, philosophical, medical and theceforth (bio)cultural viewpoints. To use the medium of the drawings and illustrations is not just for fun: it allows the viewers (dilettante) to get the point in a…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  August 24, 2013

  Artificial limbs, Artificial organs, Augmented reality, Bionic body, Brain-Machine Interface, Comic strip, Haptic technology, medical enhancement, Philosophy

  artificial organs and limbs, bionic body, brain-machine interface, Comic strip, Cyber-Feminism, Gender studies, norms, Sexual fantasy