A California-based company called R3 Bio says, on its web site: Recent Media Coverage We noted recent sensational media coverage. Such attention is not encouraged by us. R3 Bio works with microscopic structures in cell culture. We do not produce the types of large scale structures envisioned in the media. We do not work with […]
As Dr. David Abram wrote in his 1996 book ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’ : “[…] the boundaries of a living body are open and indeterminate: more like membranes than barriers … so that it is very difficult to discern, at any moment, precisely where this living body begins and where it ends.” Such indeterminacies […]
Nicole Martins who is Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Telecommunications,Indiana University, US, has undertaken (along with colleagues from the University of Southern California, and the University of Illinois) a unique investigation into ‘Virtual muscularity’. The study sought to quantify the body sizes of male video-game characters to determine whether such images reflect actual bodies […]