Category: medical reconstruction

• 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

• Comic strip 4. Hermaphroditus

  GENDER STUDIES Hermaphroditus, the two-sexed child of Aphrodite and Hermes, “intersex” generic name (when there is a lack of concordance between the genetic sex and the anatomical one). Intersex, in humans and other animals, is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  May 27, 2013

  Comic strip, Hermaphrodisme, Intersex, Intersexe, medical reconstruction, Sex and gender diverse (SDG)

• Le transhumanisme

  Evolution, cyberthéorie et transhumanisme _ ou théorie du cyber-anatomique (Nicogossian, 2013) (Il neige, tryptique, 2013) « L’organisme humain est d’une inefficacité scandaleuse. Au lieu d’une bouche et d’un anus qui risquent tous deux de se détraquer, pourquoi n’aurait-on pas un seul orifice polyvalent pour l’alimentation et la défécation ? On pourrait murer la bouche et…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  April 29, 2013

  Art, Bionic body, Brain-Machine Interface, Comic strip, Haptic technology, medical enhancement, medical reconstruction, Philosophy, Techniques and technologies, Transhumanisme

  artificial organs and limbs, bionic body, brain-machine interface, Comic strip, Philosophie, transhumanisme, world transhumanist association

• L’hybride: c’est quoi?

  L’HYBRIDE L’hybride présente le corps biologique de l’homme, ensemble normal et handicapé, au travers de quelques organes et membres, de façon non-exhaustive, morcelée et déconstruite. Ce choix peut sembler paradoxal dans ce travail de sciences humaines, mu pourtant par la volonté critique de souligner et d’attaquer tout positivisme, et de considérer le corps humain comme…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  April 22, 2013

  Artificial organs, Bionic body, Brain-Machine Interface, Comic strip, medical enhancement, medical reconstruction, Philosophy, Techniques and technologies, Transhumanisme

  artificial organs and limbs, bionic body, brain-machine interface, Comic strip, enhancement, Handicap, human body, Philosophie, reconstruction and augmentation; hybrid body, transhumanisme