Anatomy Lesson
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Willem van der Meer Michiel van Miereveld 1617
The history of the body is closely linked to the history of medicine. It is a story of the flattening of the body, bringing what is inside, hidden, to the outside, spreading it onto another surface. The drive is to make the body two-dimensional, all surface. It marches in step with the modern cult of the individual. Individualization is a surgical procedure, a separation from the larger Body.
The Anatomy Lesson by Krishen Khanna 1972
"A chance to cut is a chance to cure."
––anonymous, olld maxim of surgeons
Thinking about an implant? You may want to read this review in the New Yorker (April 20, 2020) or even the book, The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/do-some-surgical-implants-do-more-harm-than-good
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The vision is for Ongoingness; Life continuing on . . . .
Flaneur (Out for a Stroll)
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I am I and my circumstance;
and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself. —JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
Changing the Conversation
I was born. I am always a vessel for something other than myself. The self is only a
vehicle for Foreign matter which comes from elsewhere and is destined to go on
elsewhere without me, whether it's words, smells, vision ––EMANUELE COCCIA Metamorphoses
The Story Teller
Now, more than ever . . . our place in the universe and the place of the universe in us, is proving to be one of active relationship. That is more than a scientist's credo. The separateness of our lives is a sham. Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, my politics, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.
—JEANETTE WINTERSON Gut Symmetries
What you do, what you become, is not my concern. –ROBERT MCCALL
Yes, there is beauty
There is love
There is joy.
All you who suffer from
the world's miseries
Defend them.
––EEVA KILPI
"Don't immanentize the eschaton."
––ERIC VOEGELIN
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