The Cyborg
- Donna Haraway
- You
Are Cyborg, interview by Hari Kunzru (Wired 5.02
- The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others in Cultural Studies, Ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler (New York: Routledge, 1992), 295-337
- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149-181
- The Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs, an early version of "The Cyborg Manifesto"
- The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others in Cultural Studies, Ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler (New York: Routledge, 1992), 295-337
Cybernetic Art
Histories of Bodies
- Images from the history of Medicine at the US National Library of Medicine site
- Tankens bilder - Images of Thought
- Nicely designed visual history.
The Human Genome: Body as 4-letter Digital Code
- Human Genome Project
Information
- Major Events in the U.S. Human Genome Project and Related Projects
- To Know Ourselves: The U.S. Department of Energy and the Human Genome Project
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - GenBank
- The Human Genome Diversity Project: Implications for Indigenous Peoples By Debra Harry, 14 March, 1995
- Genetics and Ethics Literature, a UBC site maintained by Bryn Williams-Jones, links collected in part from the RAFI Communique, the UBC Biomedical & Health Care Ethics Resources on WWW, and the Eubios Ethics Institute.
- Major Events in the U.S. Human Genome Project and Related Projects
"Visible" Folk: Body as Alphanumeric Code and RGB Value
- The Visible Human Project
- The official Visible Human page with links to various projects.
- Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology Medical Gross Anatomy Home Page
- A list of more links.
- The NPAC Visible Human Viewer (Java)
- Bookmark Boy.
- Guided Tour: Visible Human
- Brief introduction to the Visible Human --planes of section (transverse, coronal and sagittal), quick time movies, links to the virtual colonoscopy.
- Marching Through the Visible Woman
- The human as caramel. Or is it bronze?
- Marching Through the Visible Man
- Ditto. The obliteration of pigmentation. As Lisa Cartwright has noted, this guy once had a tatoo. (Does it matter?)
- Center for Human Simulation
- Center for Human Simulation (CHS) Movies
- Full colour, beautiful graphics, movies, and 3d rendering of the Virtual man. Some of the more gorgeous images produced. Includes 3-d polygonal (VR) models of the knee bone and trachea. Animations include:
- Rendering of the Visible Human heart rotating 360 degrees in increments of 20 degrees
- Rendering of the Visible Human torso rotating 360 degrees in increments of 10 degrees;
- Rendering of the Visible Human thigh and knee with increasing transparency of the muscles.
- QTVR Samples from the Department of Anatomy at Wright State University
- Photographic quality images. These can be (partially) manipulated. The QTVR skull is a dissected head that loses/gains layers of muscle as you move it around.
- Three Dimensional Medical Reconstruction
- Includes movies of:
- CT Colon Fly Through
- CT Skull Fly Through
- MR Brain Fly Through
- CT Lung Fly Through
- CT Torso Fly Through
- Heart Arteries Fly Through
- Simulation of Baby Delivery (painless, bloodless, bodiless, babyless)
- MNI PIXAR Movies
- McGill--volume rendering from MRI data. Includes brain sections and arterio-venous blood flow.
- Work with the VISIBLE HUMAN data set: the Body
- University of Hamburg. Voxel Man movies--some of the more corpse-like of images produced. One movie entails the disrobing of skin (and penis) from neck to knee.
- Scientific Movie Library - Medical
- Now Showing! Bizarre visual metaphor of a movie theatre, with posters and marquee. Images are good and include under "Visible Human":
- a Virtual Man flythrough
- the Visible Woman Model full length (her skeleton pops out from behind her and rotates along with her bronzy-caramel coloured body
- the Visible Man thighs (chopped off, transparent skin, and rotating) and torso.
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- "MEET Man Project: Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic Behaviour of Man." This is man as plastic model (skin lifted off in squares to reveal muscle and bone structure). Also includes isolated body parts.
- The Splatter Image Gallery and The Splatter Movie Gallery
- The Splatter gallery shows movies and images made using Splatter software. Splatter is a program for creating 3-d images from slices. The gallery contains, among others, a movie of the male head chopped off and rotating through space. These are worth examining since the movies are "realistic" without being particularly useful from the standpoint of the study of anatomy. The body of the Visible Female rotating through black space like an abandoned astronaut, for example, is an image to wonder about.
- Visualizing the Visible Human
- University of Hamburg:
-original cross section containing blue gelatin, computer-generated cutaway skull
-good quality coloured jpgs - Interactive 3D-Segmentation
- Brightly coloured plastic guts, also a kidney, brain, thorax, lower abdomen.
- Planning for interventional neuroradiology
- Link from here to gif of plastic blood vessel and aneurism. (Voxel Man)
- 3D Navigation
- Links to Voxel Man brain aneurism movie with plasticky/glasslike blood vessels; simulation of gastroscopy.
- Vesalius Project
- Lungs and bronchial tubes twirling in space--colours are "realistic" against a black background.
- University of Chicago Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- has some interesting MRI images. Check out the images created by "Rendo 2000" software (a parallel volume rendering package distributable to a network of heterogeneous workstations).
The Body, Virtuality, Technology Syllabi & Texts
- Gender, Technology, and Computer Culture--Syllabus 95
- Instructor: Sherry Turkle
- Virtuality Homepage
- Sophomore Dialogue Seminar at Stanford, Winter 1998. Instructors: Timothy Lenoir and Sha Xin Wei. Includes full texts of some chapters on the syllabus (links are broken but still accessible).
- BodyWorks_Homepage.html
- Medicine, Technology, and the Body in the Late 20th Century (HPS 153/253; History 274/374; Surgery 274; English 309K), Winter 98. Instructors: Timothy Lenoir (History & Philosophy of Science), Georgene Moldovan (Surgery), John Bender (English & Comparative Literature).
Maintained by Allison Muri