| The general aim of the program is to describe and conceptualise the interrelations between knowledge formation, representational conventions, technological interventions, cultural dissemination, and subjective experiences that mediate the human body and its boundaries. The program consists of five related, philosophical, historical and sociological and anthropological research projects investigating into various medical, scientific and artistic ways of visualising the inner human body and its boundaries. By focusing on visual representations of the body's interior and boundaries we set out to formulate a theory of the mediated body that allows us to understand the various dimensions involved in its mediation. By concentrating on mediation we aim at a comprehensive treatment and a new perspective on traditional philosophical themes as the relationship between subject and object, the status of knowledge, and the experienced body in its social, technological and cultural context. |
