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• SOMMAIRE

  Elena TADDIA

  Eighteenth-Century Archives of the Body Conference Proceedings of the International Workshop Archives of the Body. Medieval to Early Modern, Cambridge University, 8-9 Sept. 2011 Eighteenth-Century Archives of the (...)

• Introduction. Archives of the Body. ‘The body as an archive’

  Elena TADDIA

  Le sternum brûle la plèvre La plèvre, contractée, étouffe les poumons. L’air pleut en escarbilles sur l’estomac. Un acide coule le long des vertèbres et dévore les racines du ventre. Tout devient blanc. Les os entassent (...)

• The Eye of the Surgeon : Bodily Images from the Collection of the Royal Academy of Surgery of Paris, 1731–93

  Jérôme Van Wijland

  Abstract : This article examines the ways in which the human body was represented in eighteenth-century France, using a range of surgical drawings. While trying to enhance the scientific status of pictures of the (...)

• Devotion and Healing. The sick, miraculously cured, examined Body of Sister Maria Vittoria Centurione in Eighteenth-Century Genoa

  Paolo Fontana

  Abstract : This research study aims to analyze documentation related to bodies, their definition and management. For this purpose, documents were used from a box entitled "Grazie" (n. 1355) from the (...)

• The ‘Polite’ Face : The Social Meanings Attached to Facial Appearance in Early Eighteenth-Century Didactic Journals

  Kathryn Woods

  Abstract : The early eighteenth-century English elite were obsessed with their looks, and this article will examine why. Through analysis of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s didactic journals the Tatler, the (...)

• Sexing the body. The case of Giacoma Foroni

  Catriona Seth

  Abstract : Giacoma Foroni, born near Mantua in 1779, was raised as a girl and believed herself to be one. Her unusual sexual organs were deemed female by different midwives, both at her birth and after puberty. The (...)

• An Archive of Sins : Experimenting with the Body and Building a Knowledge of the ‘Low’ in José Ignacio Eyzaguirre’s General Confession (1799-1804)

  Martín Bowen Silva

  Abstract : In this paper I will analyze an unpublished document from the late eighteenth century, currently held in Chile’s National Archives. In it, its author, José Ignacio Eyzaguirre, an educated man in his (...)

• Sommaire. Neurosciences, arts et littérature.

  Hervé-Pierre Lambert

  Hervé-Pierre Lambert Présentation I. La synesthésie, une révolution scientifique et culturelle Carol Steen Synesthesia : Seeing the World Differently Marcia Smilack The Language of Synesthesia Lynne (...)

• Présentation. Neurosciences, arts et littérature.

  Hervé-Pierre Lambert

  Les découvertes dans le domaine des neurosciences ont commencé avant la révolution de la neuroimagerie des années 1990, qui est souvent venue confirmer les paradigmes, comme pour la perception visuelle. Dans La fabrique (...)

• Synesthesia : Seeing the World Differently

  Carol Steen

  Abstract : In this paper I examine the processes and outcomes of using synesthesia in art. I discuss what might be different about artists with synesthesia and look at some types of experiences that synesthetes may (...)

• The Language of Synesthesia

  Marcia Smilack

  ABSTRACT : In “The Language of Synesthesia,” Marcia Smilack tells the story of her life as a fine art photographer who taught herself how to use a camera by relying on her synesthetic responses as signals for when to (...)

• Landscapes of Blue, the Iconic Color — Even for Synesthetic Experience

  Patricia Lynne Duffy

  Introduction : the many shades and meanings of Blue The color blue intrigues. On the landscape of both the outer world and the inner one, blue holds a central place. If asked to name a favorite color, most (...)

• “The Brain is Wider Than the Sky”

  Suzanne Anker

  Abstract : “The Brain is Wider Than the Sky” As a diagnostic tool for making the body transparent, fMRI scans are a significant resource in detecting physical maladies. Recent discussions regarding its picturing (...)

• Dopage mental : l’anthropotechnie des psychostimulants entre réalité et fiction

  Jérôme Goffette

  Résumé : Si le dopage évoque un univers de produits et de consommations illicites, le dopage mental trouble cette assimilation rapide. D’une part, du café au Guronsan®, bien des usages ne sont pas prohibés, et, d’autres (...)

• Neurologie et littérature, à l’époque de la neuroculture

  Hervé-Pierre Lambert

  Abstract : Il existe une relation forte dans la culture française entre neurologie et littérature. Deux traditions héritées du siècle passé perdurent sous les nouveaux habits de la neuroculture, celle de la narration (...)