“People don’t pay enough attention to the body. My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There’s nothing else, and when we die, that’s it. No afterlife. I’m very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you. There’s an emphasis on your spirit, or where you’ll be when your body’s gone, and that’s misleading. ” - David Cronenberg in an interview with Defamer, explaining also how he is “lazy” and of the two, David Lynch is “way weirder than I am.” (via.)

Last month, ESPN magazine had a cover feature on prosthetic advances, referring to Oscar Pistorius’ unjust ban from the Olympics and that fact so many wounded Iraq solders are athletes. “In Chariots of Fire, the hero comes under heavy scrutiny for using his era’s version of steroids: a coach, at a time when the sport frowned upon outside assistance. So if we can adjust rules of sports to the time, why not for prosthetics?” (via.) UPDATE: Great news! Pistorius won his appeal today and will be running in the Olympics.

Morbid Anatomy’s Joanna Ebenstein just launched a website for “Anatomical Theatre”, a touring photographic exhibition of medical museum artifacts spanning from the 16th to the 20th century.

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