Artifacts

This is a collection of remarkable things I came across that I'm saving for future reference. www.vesnaonline.com Vesna Jovanovic is a Chicago artist inspired by science, pinhole cameras, wabi-sabi, fungi, theories, emergence, pareidolia, and a bunch of other seemingly random stuff.

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#catscradle #oldtoys

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Next up, #biopolitics

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#spinach #conjoined #mutant #plants #food

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Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education

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#morbidanatomy museum

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If one concedes even once that the living body is the seat of a third person process, then nothing in behavior can be reserved for consciousness.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (from the book Phenomenology of Perception)

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Bodily space can be distinguished from external space and it can envelop its parts rather than laying them out side by side because it is the darkness of the theater required for the clarity of the performance . . .

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception)

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9/9/14 – Chicago area

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Thus, while the living body became an exterior without an interior, subjectivity became an interior without an exterior, that is, an impartial spectator.

Phenomenology of Perception

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Baroque-Era Drawings Reveal Early Ideas About Evolution

These are works by "the greatest French artist of all time," according to Louis XIV. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) used his artistry to compare human and animal faces, later inspiring Charles Darwin to write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

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