The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature

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The value of the artificial limb market is expected to grow significantly, driven by accidents and worldwide increases of vascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. According to data from in-home studies, presented at the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions, the use of the bionic pancreas showed significantly improved reductions in mean glucose and hypoglycaemia compared to the use of conventional insulin pump therapy. In the artificial wombs, premature human babies will be surrounded by fluids, and receive nutrients and oxygen through an artificial placenta connected to their umbilical cord.

Agenda delivers news from galleries, art spaces, and publications, while Criticism publishes reviews of exhibitions and books. Eternal Summer Storm attempts to recreate legendary Japanese dancer Tasumi Hijikata's Butoh dance choreography and experience in ‘A Summer Storm’ (1973) from archival footages.This has been a significant accomplishment, as sheep have a long gestation period, like humans, and the size of their foetuses are similar to ours. Listening beyond the Western discourse of dance theory that dominates the context in which this text is written, we want to unpack the phenomena of dance as something inherently bound to the social. It constitutes a responsive memory through diverse layers of movements accumulated within and articulated outwards. When an index finger touches an electronic skin, the electronic skin detects contact as a temperature change, and when a finger pushes the skin, the back part of the contact area stretches and recognises it as movement. A new artificial eye prototype, developed by engineer Zhiyong Fan at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, can be used for improved vision prostheses and humanoid robots, and almost brings cyborgs a step closer to reality.

Duncan was not only shaped by, but for a long time she also depended on the approval of the bourgeoisie—her primary audience and the sponsor of her “free” art. According to president and CEO of iLet manufacturer Beta Bionics, Edward R Damiano, “the iLet Bionic Pancreas System represents a true breakthrough therapy for the management of glycemia, particularly in type 1 diabetes. The body is the site of the unfolding of ideology, through aesthetics, norms, and the gendering and racialization of the flesh. It blurred the lines between living and dying and recomposed the present formation of the public, inverting the era’s logics and spectrum of possible expressions.Guid Oei, a gynaecologist at the Maxima Medical Centre and professor at the Dutch university, says: “When we put the lungs back under water then they can develop, they can mature, but the baby will receive the oxygen by the umbilical cord, just like in the natural womb.

million in funding from the Horizon 2020 EU Programme, to be invested in the development of a prototype artificial human womb for use in clinics.This technique is used in hospitals across the world and has saved the lives of tens of thousands of burn patients. We see an emancipatory and reformatory potential in dancing and choreographing as they create space for testing ideas and movements. The notion that a widespread realization of extraordinary capacities would constitute an evolutionary transcendence analogous to the rise of humankind from its primal ancestry. She can uphold an activity beyond the material frames of the body, as the energy that she produces is what enables her existence.

But to listen and respond through the resonance of a history that takes place and takes shape, requires waiting. If the aspects of the world that we nurture into the future are shaped by how we understand and tell the past, 15 our inheritances are manifested through the stories we tell—stories that transform us and our communities and that become a foundation for our future becoming. The new school of dance is an underscore for moving together, for the constitution of the social sphere in which we become many.

All this fascinating if sometimes sensational information does serve a purpose, of course - to illuminate the author's "central observations and proposals," e. As an expression of worlds, of inner landscapes released into the social tissue, the wave can be seen as a container.