Below are a series of images I found to be very "human" and I guess I want to add images...

Greetings Space Collective! My topic is about how tools have allowed us as humans to evolve....

Observe how our tools have evolved over time, and how this relates source: Chronology of Human Technology Age BP Oldest example of... Place Species 2.0 kyr continuous industrial worksite Bigo, Uganda Homo sapiens1 2.0 kyr grammar text Greece Homo sapiens2 2.0 kyr false tooth Essonne, France Homo sapiens126 2.3 kyr genealogy Georgia, SSR...

Since I keep referring to his ideas, I guess it would be best to post what I have been referring to. Society of Control Gilles Deleuze ( I. Historical / II. Logic / III. Program ) I. Historical Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the...

Since I keep referring to his ideas, I guess it would be best to post what I have been referring to. Control and Becoming Gilles Deleuze in conversation with Antonio Negri Negri: The problem of politics seems to have always been present in your intellectual life. Your involvement in various movements (prisoners, homosexuals, Italian...

While I attempt to map out my own life into words and images (hopefully later), I realize just how hard it is to convey an idea through text rather than through expression and movement of the body. Somehow, it seems easier to be rather than to express. Expression, or at least expression that is planned for dispersion, often involves critical...

These are still incomplete, as I have so much more I can probably add to these, but this is just a...

My final outcome will be a MOVIE A series of short clips of myself (focusing on effects of...

I am making a book of colors that correlate with the emotions one feels when they are touched/not touched by a human being. You can view my 'very' rough draft right Here

HUMAN TOUCH = HAPPINESS Positive human interaction via touch leads to a happy human being

How much of me am I? After reflecting upon how I consider myself as an individual, I discussed...

Human connections through senses: MEDITATION After thinking about what really makes us HUMAN in first place, I thought it is extremely important to fully realize ourselves and learn who we are. As a human being, we do have unique ability to use 5 senses;taste, touch, see, hear, and smell. All five senses play important roles in connecting...

In considering the idea of branding the human species, one thing stuck out to me the most, which is this idea that we are all somehow interconnected into a society of control, be it at school, home or the workplace. In researching Deleuze and Foucault's essays, I realized just how complicated the matter of "individuality" really is and...

Products will almost always come with instruction manuals on how to use the item properly, and...

Biocultural evolution is a means of describing the influence of both biological makeup and cultural...

Japanese artist Hiromix, in her book 'Hiromix' by Steidl Press writes: "Youth reflects...

The myth of normal: the media imposes an invisible set of rules and conventions through which...

For some reason my research brought my thoughts back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Highschool, we focused on how the creature yearns for Frankenstein's affection, for he is the creature's "father". Frankenstein denies his paternal duties because he cannot find those affectionate feelings in such a horrid beast. Creature gets no TLC,...

Here is an excerpt from a cultural athropology book defining high and low touch culture. Read here

Our Parenting Choices by Pam Leo "Everyday, every parent makes major and minor, conscious and unconscious decisions about how to interact with their children. We may be pushed by the traditions of culture, or the approval or disapproval of family members, but in the end, all parents decide for themselves how to treat their...

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The universal power of touch Eva Scherer is frustrated that people in her adoptive country are afraid of touch. She says New Zealand is a "low touch" culture and she believes that many of the health and social problems experienced by children may stem from an aversion to touching. Ms Scherer moved to New Zealand from Poland five...

Yoko Ono THE TOUCH For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it is bruised, I thought, and that is why they have locked it up. You could tell time by this, I thought, like a clock, by its five knuckles and the thin underground veins. It lay there like an unconscious...

Here are a few videos that document human touch in its different forms.

Humans, at the core, are perceptive and emotional. Offering affection, or any other type of intimate behavior with one's hand showcases the transcendence between one's emotional intentions and use of hands. However, holding hands only suggests intimacy in its every form, and nothing but. Thus, to perceive the notion of an intimate feeling, one...

What is unique to humans: we can express our feelings (or affect) through our hands. Two or more people voluntarily hold hands for one of the following reasons and purposes: in various rituals: handshake in certain religious services, to pray in various occult rituals to express friendship or love to enjoy physical intimacy (not...

The following are clips of my research for Branding the Species. You can see the first trains of thought here: DMA Brand Lab II Blog How am I going to do this? I have no idea. For those unfamiliar, I study both Design and Linguistics. I love languages, and the idea of languages, and the idea that languages are...