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Is the human body obsolete?

This article analyses the change in the natural human body towards the bionic body full of artificialities. One the other hand, Isadora Duncan is examined as an expression in which Rousseau's philosophy is made explicit - a gestural language of adjustment of movements to an artistic and political project; the aesthetic of bare feet, loose clothes, undulatory movements, freedom from conventional codes that imprison the body in a society that dates from the second half of the 19th century. On the other hand, project "Primus Posthuman" is presented as a prototype of the body of the future: a body that is absolutely manageable by technoscience, designed to overcome all defects of the biological body, a bionic body, a machine to which soon the mind's context will be transported. 21st century society. The farewell to the biological body. A virtual world. The world of machines. The death of the human body?

body; technoscience; body culture of human movement


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