Ordinary Body Research Articles

"Everyday Body" Model of Physicality in Theoretical and Practical Heritage of Merce Cunningham

The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the formation of the "ordinary body" model of physicality in the postmodern dance system based on the analysis of the theoretical and practical legacy of Merce Cunningham. Research methodology. The analytical method, the methods of analysis and synthesis, the typological, dialectical and comparativist method were applied, which contributed to the clarification of the place and role of physicality in certain philosophical and cultural positions, to the study of the problem of physicality in general and the "everyday body" model in the concept of representatives of postmodern dance, consideration of theoretical – the practical legacy of M. Cunningham, the understanding of the internal relationship between the categories "body" and "physicality" in modern dance. Scientific novelty. The conceptual construct of corporeality, formulated within the framework of postmodern dance, is analysed; the cultural-historical model of physicality "everyday body" was characterised and the features of its representation in postmodern dance practices were revealed; changes in the perception of physicality in the context of the transformation of the sociocultural space of the 50s and 60s of the 20th century are analysed. The understanding of corporeality in the theoretical and practical discourse of postmodern dance by M. Cunningham is considered. Conclusions. At the core of the postmodern system is the principle of randomness, which is positioned as an artistic expression of the involvement of many bodies in the space of action of forces independent of them. In search of ways to free oneself from bodily canons that were formed in the sociocultural space, Merce Cunningham methodologically used randomness as the principle of creating a new dance corporeality, which lacks a coherent image and becomes a flow. In the process of constant experiments, the choreographer's own idea of what dance is (how it feels in the body and how it looks on stage) evolved. M. Cunningham's activities allowed him to overcome the limitations of his own taste and give priority to "movement for the sake of movement" – the dance no longer conveyed the story, emotions or characteristics of the characters. The choreographer completely departs from established dance lexicons, discovering innovative ways of organising and representing bodies in space and time by means of random operations. Taking into account these and numerous additional innovations, in the history of postmodern dance, M. Cunningham exerted the greatest influence on the formation of the "everyday body" model of physicality.
 Keywords: modern dance, postmodern dance, physicality, model of physicality "everyday body", M. Cunningham.

A Systemic Review of Organophosphorus Poisoning by Analyzing the Case Report

Introduction: Poison is any substance that obstructs with ordinary body functions and is capable of affecting adverse effects in living organisms. Self-poisoning from organophosphorus [OP] pesticides is a significant clinical issue in rural areas of developing countries and is responsible for an estimated 2,00,000 fatalities annually. Suspicion recognizable clinical symptoms the odour of pesticides or solvents and decreased butyrylcholinesterase activity in the blood are used for diagnosis. Case Study: A 30 years old female patient was admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital, with an alleged history of dimethoate compound poisoning. On arrival the patient was drowsy responds to painful stimuli and afebrile. The treatment was begin with Gastric lavage with normal saline Inj.Pralidoxime in an intravenous route and Atropine was also administered intravenously and repeated every 5 minutes until the pupil dilated and Ranitidine was given to prevent ulceration. Discussion: The initial method to treat organophosphorus poisoning is to decontaminate the patient by removing and destroying all clothing and using drying agent such as flour sand or bentonite. The patient's irrational usage of medication therapy causes a worsening of the condition and a 10- to 15-day hospitalization. Conclusion: As per the standard treatment guidelines, atropine should be given as first-line therapy because muscarinic effects are reversed by atropine. By providing this to the patient, you will minimise the severity of their illness minimise down on their stay in the hospital and ultimately save their lives.

Gait training in cerebral palsy patients

The editorial introduces collection of articles from various journals. The studiesincluded in this editorial are solely about gait training and relationship between gait and balanceof CP patient. Cerebral palsy is one of the major neurological congenital disorders. It involves delayedmilestones of the patient. Difficulty in achieving goals that a normal child can easily perform isreported by health care providers. Gait training is essential for walking and maintaining balanceand its regime should have three to six months training to reduce gait, balance and musclestrength anomalies. Cerebral paralysis was the most widely recognized fundamental reason for sudden passing ofnewborn children. Rate of deaths because of CP has diminished to a specific cutoff howeverpatients don't include the sound ordinary body capacities. Typically Cerebral paralysis patients inlocal area as well as in ongoing accomplish no noteworthy action level. Physiotherapy assumes acritical part in the administration of cerebral paralysis and includes different remedial mediationsin upgrading the different physiological and useful results.

EXPLORING TIRUMULAR'S LOVE OF THE BODY IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The principles of the Siddharthas are instructive of the ideas of instability. In particular, it is advisable to go beyond the stages of yak (physical) instability, youth instability, and wealth instability and ignore worldly attachments as everything is unstable. Furthermore, it is possible that the songs sound like a body that depicts the body as an erotic state and regrets the depravity of the body. However, some Siddhas refer to the body as the state of the Lord. Notable among them is Tirumular. He loves the body as Shiva. His songs transform the ordinary human body into a body of devotion. Kayasitthi's lifestyle is revealed in the package "Udale Sivam". When songs about Tirumular's health are studied with psychological factors, the intuitional stimuli of his life experience resonate in the songs.

The Ordinary Contested, Laruelle contra Deleuze and Guattari

This article addresses the question of the relationship between corporeality and the ordinary in the works of François Laruelle. This is done through the formulation of the ‘ordinary body’ that draws from across Laruelle's work on the ordinary, corporeality and photography in order to outline Laruelle's radically immanent account of embodiment. The critical outline of Laruellean corporeality and the ordinary body is drawn out via a critical posing of Laruelle in contrast to Deleuze and Guattari. In doing so, the article indicates the singular difference between Laruelle, on one side, and Deleuze and Guattari, on the other, with respect to corporeal immanence and the usage of the everyday and ordinary. The article concludes with an argument that the relationship between the body and the ordinary in Laruelle's thought implies a novel non-philosophical or non-standard ‘poetics’ and usage of the ordinary.

Structural injustice and the Requirements of Beauty

Structural injustice and the Requirements of Beauty

Zoe: vida comum ameaçada

Resumo: Em 2017, o espetáculo de dança Zoe, dirigido pela coreógrafa Francini Barros, foi alvo de censura, por iniciar com um performer nu, na calçada do Teatro Apolo, em Recife. O fato ensejou uma reflexão sobre a arte como mecanismo instaurador de uma utopia frente ao conservadorismo neoliberal. O trabalho que ora se apresenta tem por objetivo compreender como os processos criativos do espetáculo Zoe se colocam como estratégia micropolítica de resistência a esse conservadorismo. Para tanto, instaura um diálogo com o pensamento de Agamben, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari e Rolnik, para discutir categorias que serviram de base para esta linha argumentativa, como vida comum (zoé), corpo utópico, heterotopia, cultura e subjetividade.

Engineering Essentials for Medical Robotics

Medical Robotics became very advanced medical field which make lengthy and complicated operations and surgeries easy task with provide comfort and quick relief to human body. Now days Medical Robotics not only limited for operations and surgeries but also became very useful in organs transplants and Cyborg implementation in/with human body to enable disabled body parts or to give super power to ordinary body. This communication discuss some key terms in medical robotics like bionic, Cyborg etc. and also discussed two models named “Bionic Engineering Model and Medical Robotics Engineering Essentials Model”.

Sports Motion Recognition Using MCMR Features Based on Interclass Symbolic Distance

Human motion and gesture recognition receive much concern in sports field, such as physical education and fitness for all. Although plenty of mature applications appear in sports training using photography, video camera, or professional sensing devices, they are either expensive or inconvenient to carry. MEMS devices would be a wise choice for students and ordinary body builders as they are portable and have many built-in sensors. In fact, recognition of hand gestures is discussed in many studies using inertial sensors based on similarity matching. However, this kind of solution is not accurate enough for human movement recognition and cost much time. In this paper, we discuss motion recognition in sports training using features extracted from distance estimation of different kinds of sensors. To deal with the multivariate motion sequence, we propose a solution that applies Max-Correlation and Min-Redundancy strategy to select features extracted with interclass distance similarity estimation. With this method, we are able to screen out proper features that can distinguish motions in different classes effectively. According to the results of experiment in real world application in dance practice, our solution is quite effective with fair accuracy and low time cost.

Body Becoming Image: The Theatrical Window

Ph.D. in «Aesthetics and Theory of Art» from the University of Palermo, a FCT post-doc fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), New University of Lisbon, 1069–061 Lisbon, Portugal.E-mail: claudio.rozzoni@gmail.comThis paper aims to analyze the question of how to define the essence of the theater, building on a con-ference Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset held in Lisbon in April 1946, where he radically raised the question of the «strange» relationship between reality and unreality that the «world of the stage» makes possible for us to experience. On the one hand, Ortega states that theater is essentially vision, while, on the other hand, it seems that such a seeing, in itself, leads to a problematic relationship with a not-seeing. In particular, Ortega seems to claim that in theater spectators experience a vision both «paradoxical» and «magic», insofar as it entails an essential not-seeing that gives rise to a play between opacity and transparency. A play that is also to be found in a masterwork many phenomenologists admired, Proust’s Recherche, in which, in order for Marcel to see the image of Phaedra, the ordinary body of the actress Berma has to vanish. Here the body becomes transparent and one no longer sees the performer himself: he/she is simply a window opening upon a great work of art. This way, the spectator can experience «this new order of creatures» that reminds us of the «etres d’une nouvelle nature» of which Du Bos wrote in the Eighteenth Century. However, regarding the topics of the «image-window», Eugen Fink and his teacher Edmund Husserl had already paved the way, and an intertwined reading of some important texts of both authors can in turn shed new light on this question. With regard to Hus-serl, special attention will be paid to a very interesting text from the Husserliana XXIII (probably dating to 1918) in which he, taking theatrical image into profound consideration, draws attention to the both paradoxical and powerful notion of perceptual phantasy.Key words: аesthetics, image, theater, transparency, opacity, window, perceptual phantasy, feelings.ТЕЛО СТАНОВИТСЯ ОБРАЗОМ: ТЕАТРАЛЬНОЕ ОКНОКЛАУДИО РОЦЦОНИPh.D. в области «Эстетики и теории искусства» Университета Палермо, пост-докторант в Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Новый университет Лиссабона, 1069–061 Лиссабон, Порту-галия.E-mail: claudio.rozzoni@gmail.com© Claudio Rozzoni

Historia del Cuerpo III. Las mutaciones de la mirada. El siglo XX

Historia del Cuerpo. Las mutaciones de la mirada. El siglo XX is the third and last part of this veritable encyclopedia of the body compiled by Corbin, Courtine and Vigarello. The medicalized body, sexed body, ordinary body, trained body, dancing body and deviated body are some of the many bodies studied in this extensive work. It also analyzes the relationship between body and experience of war and/or concentration camp. The body on film is addressed as well. This book invites readers to make a tour through the great landmarks of twentieth century history, focusing on the ways in which they were embodied by people.

The Difficulty of Reading Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish" Suspiciously

The difficulty of reading Allen Ginsberg’s poetry is a recurring theme in criticism of his work and that of other post-WWII “Beat Generation” writers. “Even when a concerted effort is made to illuminate [Beat] literature,” laments Nancy M. Grace, “doing so is difficult: the romance of the Beat life threatens to subsume the project” (812). Of course, the Beat life is romantic to the extent that it is romantically regaled. Continual romantic portrayals, such as that of Ginsberg in the recent movie Howl (2010), rekindle the Beat romance for new audiences with chicken-and-egg circularity. I explore this difficulty of reading Ginsberg that Grace and other critics identify by articulating it with respect to "Kaddish"—“Ginsberg’s most highly praised and his least typical poem” (Perloff 213)—as a difficulty of interpreting Ginsberg suspiciously. Philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s theories of interpretation—or “hermeneutics”—provide the theoretical foundation here. Ricoeur distinguishes between a romantic or “restorative” mode of interpretation, where meaning is reverently reconciled to a text assumed to be trustworthy, and a “suspicious” approach, where meaning is aggressively extrapolated from a text held as unreliable. In order to bring these theories to bear on "Kaddish" and its criticism, I draw on Rita Felski’s pioneering work in relating Ricoeur’s concept of “suspicious reading” to the field of literature. Is it possible to read "Kaddish" suspiciously? Or is there nothing left for suspicious readers to expose in texts such as "Kaddish" that are already self-exposing?

De-aging Dancerism? The aging body in contemporary and community dance

Simple walking became dance when the Judson Dance Theater questioned established theatrical conventions in the 1960s. These artists attempted to establish an outlook on dance that did not differentiate between a dancer's body and an ordinary body. However, they introduced the issue of audience participation in the field of dance without questioning their culturally accepted young, able bodies. Another form of participation in dance is the cultural activities of Community Dance, a form established in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, which is open to the elderly. In contrast to the UK Community Dance, where the audience started to dance themselves, the Community Dance movement in the United States is due to the interest of particular artists, such as Anna Halprin, working with the audience, who are members of various communities. While the negative prejudice towards aging exists in dance markets, the question remains: If seniors dance, is this cultural movement but never raised to the status of “art”? The situation of dance in Japan with the presence of professional aging dancers allows us to question the established dance techniques and structures of young professional dancers and old amateurs in Western Community Dance. Aging depicts the aesthetics of Japanese dance and synchronizes the form with alternative forms of dancing. In the case of Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, who achieved global success at 74, the issue of aging runs parallel with dancing. Instead of being disciplined by Modern Dance, Ohno improvises and creates the spontaneous living moments, thereby being liberated from institutionalized dance technique. The philosophy of life within craftsmanship aestheticizes the aging during Ohno's lifetime of dancing. The example of Ohno's aging blurs the boundary between professionalism and amateurism, as well as that between dance art and Community Dance, which are based on the cultural expectation of ‘dancerism’ in youth-oriented dance culture.

Apparel Sizing System for Obese Men in There 20s

The purpose of this study is investigate the feature of the body shape of obese males and to propose a new apparel sizing system considering the body size of obese men through an the analysis of the body measurement of obese men in their twenties as reported in the 'Fifth Korean National Physical Standard Reports'. For this study, a new apparel sizing system for casual wear was proposed for obese men in their twenties after a body measurement of 159 obese men in their 20s with a BMI of 25 and over as reported in the 'Fifth Korean National Physical Standard Reports' conducted by SIZEKOREA. This study sought to investigate the features of obese men's bodies by comparing the body shape between obese men and ordinary men. The result of shows that width, depth and circumference items influencing the width size when producing clothes are larger in the case of an obese body shape than an ordinary body shape, and that the stature, total length, arm length and outside leg length influencing the length size are similar between an obese body shape and an ordinary body shape. Therefore, it was confirmed that an apparel sizing system specializing in clothes for obese customers is required. As a result of this study of the features of body shape, the control dimensions for such an apparel sizing system were determined to be the stature and chest circumference of upper garments and the stature and waist circumference(omphalion) for lower garments. The interval between the sizes was 5cm for the stature and was irregular for the chest and waste circumference. Consequently, 8 sizes were proposed for upper garments and 9 sizes were proposed for lower garments.

Investigations on a Large Collection of Cosmic Dust From the Central Indian Ocean

We collected 1,245 spherules from the Central Indian Ocean basin by Magnetic cosmic dust collection (MACDUC) experiment raking the deep sea floor. This collection ranks among the large deep sea collections of cosmic dust. For this study, 168 particles are analyzed with SEM-EDS to characterise their cosmic nature and identify the processes that their morphological features, textures and chemical compositions reveal. All the three basic types of cosmic spherules have been identified: I-type, S-type and the G-type. The silicate or the S-type spherules are dominant in this collection. In all, 115 spherules were sectioned, polished and analyzed for major elements. I-type spherules are mainly composed of Fe and Ni oxides, some have metallic cores where appreciable amounts of Co is observed in addition to glassy phases with lithophile elements are also observed in these spherules. These evidences are supportive of the view that the I-type spherules could be metal grains from carbonaceous/unequilibrated chondritic bodies. The S-type spherules show elemental composition of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Fe, and Ni approximately similar to chondritic compositions. In addition, some other rare particles such as an S-type sphere which contains a large zoned relict chromite crystal, other spheres with a semi-porphyritic/barred olivine texture are also observed. While most the S-type spherules appear to have carbonaceous chondrites as their parent bodies, the relict grain bearing spherule shows distinctly an ordinary chondritic parent body.

Trauma Attenuating Backing Improves Protection Against Behind Armor Blunt Trauma

Body armor is used by military personnel, police officers, and security guards to protect them from fatal gunshot injuries to the thorax. The protection against high-velocity weapons may, however, be insufficient. Complementary trauma attenuating backings (TAB) have been suggested to prevent morbidity and mortality in high-velocity weapon trauma. Twenty-four Swedish landrace pigs, protected by a ceramid/aramid body armor without (n = 12) or with TAB (n = 12) were shot with a standard 7.62-mm assault rifle. Morphologic injuries, cardiorespiratory, and electroencephalogram changes as well as physical parameters were registered. The bullet impact caused a reproducible behind armor blunt trauma (BABT) in both the groups. The TAB significantly decreased size of the lung contusion and prevented hemoptysis. The postimpact apnea, desaturation, hypotension, and rise in pulmonary artery pressure were significantly attenuated in the TAB group. Moreover, TAB reduced transient peak pressures in thorax by 91%. Our results indicate that ordinary body armor should be complemented by a TAB to prevent thoracic injuries when the threat is high-velocity weapons.

Contorted and ordinary body postures in the human brain

Social interaction and comprehension of non-verbal behaviour requires a representation of people’s bodies. Research into the neural underpinnings of body representation implicates several brain regions including extrastriate and fusiform body areas (EBA and FBA), superior temporal sulcus (STS), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and inferior parietal lobule (IPL). The different roles played by these regions in parsing familiar and unfamiliar body postures remain unclear. We examined the responses of this body observation network to static images of ordinary and contorted postures by using a repetition suppression design in functional neuroimaging. Participants were scanned whilst observing static images of a contortionist or a group of objects in either ordinary or unusual configurations, presented from different viewpoints. Greater activity emerged in EBA and FBA when participants viewed contorted compared to ordinary body postures. Repeated presentation of the same posture from different viewpoints lead to suppressed responses in the fusiform gyrus as well as three regions that are characteristically activated by observing moving bodies, namely STS, IFG and IPL. These four regions did not distinguish the image viewpoint or the plausibility of the posture. Together, these data define a broad cortical network for processing static body postures, including regions classically associated with action observation.

Venomics: Digging into the evolution of venomous systems and learning to twist nature to fight pathology

From an anthropocentric standpoint, our tiny blue planet can be referred to as a cosmic island plenty of poisonous animals that can threaten the human life. Indeed, venomous organisms are widely spread throughout the animal kingdom, comprising more than 100.000 species distributed among all major phyla, such as chordates (reptiles, fishes, amphibians, mammals), echinoderms (starfishes, sea urchins), molluscs (cone snails, octopi), annelids (leeches), nemertines, arthropods (arachnids, insects, myriapods) and cnidarians (sea anemones, jellyfish, corals). In any habitat there is a competition for resources, and every ecosystem on Earth supporting life contains poisonous or venomous organisms. One of the most fascinating techniques of capturing prey or defending oneself is the use of poisons or venoms. Venom represents an adaptive trait and an example of convergent evolution [1,2], and reviewed by Bryan G. Fry (University of Melbourne, Australia) and colleagues in this issue [3]). Venoms are deadly cocktails, each comprising unique mixtures of peptides and proteins naturally tailored by Natural Selection to act on vital systems of the prey or victim. Venom toxins disturb the activity of critical enzymes, receptors, or ion channels, thus disarranging the central and peripheral nervous systems, the cardiovascular and the neuromuscular systems, blood coagulation and homeostasis. Venom proteins are the result of the duplication of ordinary body proteins, often involved in key physiological processes, that were recruited through yet

Optimization of Sandwich Monocoque Car Body with Equivalent Shell Element

AbstractThis research proposes a straightforward and efficient method to optimize a sandwich monocoque car body with the developed equivalent shell element based on stiffness equivalence. The fact that stiffness rather than strength is dominant constraint for ordinary car body optimization is demonstrated. A simple but heavy flat chassis plate is utilized as upper bound, while an ideal monocoque is used as lower bound for an actual car body optimization. Convergence hours can be significantly reduced with the equivalent element and the initial-bounded method. A novel electric car body optimization is presented, fulfilling UltraLight Steel Auto Body (ULSAB) stiffness requirements and showing similar optimal weight results as a conventional approach with a much lower analysis time cost.

Structure of the Wake of a Magnetic Obstacle

We use a combination of numerical simulations and experiments to elucidate the structure of the flow of an electrically conducting fluid past a localized magnetic field, called magnetic obstacle. We demonstrate that the stationary flow pattern is considerably more complex than in the wake behind an ordinary body. The steady flow is shown to undergo two bifurcations (rather than one) and to involve up to six (rather than just two) vortices. We find that the first bifurcation leads to the formation of a pair of vortices within the region of magnetic field that we call inner magnetic vortices, whereas a second bifurcation gives rise to a pair of attached vortices that are linked to the inner vortices by connecting vortices.