As for the beautiful and cruel ballet slippers that she put on her feet every day for almost 40 years, the bodily extensions that are synonymous with the ballerina, does she miss those?
Kicking off tomorrow at New York's Bitforms Gallery is Touched: A Space of Relations, an exhibition that aims to explore "the sense of touch as a metaphor of bodily presence and an extension across boundary".
For such an organism, sensitivity to the bodily dynamics of contraction-extension would also take in external disturbances in Pantin patterning when external surfaces impinge upon that body by either allowing or hindering body contractions or extensions (see Fig. 1).
In this case, the animal involved will become sensitive to the ongoing dynamical state of its own body: the global bodily distribution of contraction-extension at any particular moment in time.
In an opening solo, "Composites," she demonstrates the fundamentals of her style, clearly built on her own capacities for rapid change of dynamics, sudden bodily isolations and luxurious, balletic extensions.
They do claim to value health, both for themselves and others, and indeed they generally claim to be driving at roughly the same goals as the doctors at Georgetown University Hospital: The extension of life, the normal functioning of bodily systems, the cessation of pain, and so on.
The extension of the intention to inflict grievous bodily harm has been criticised, although it has remained in place despite several legal challenges, and, in the case of R v Hyam the minority judgments of Lord Diplock and Lord Kilbrandon which would have removed it.
For instance, with the promise of advanced AI comes the possibility of radical life extension, even immortality, after we've banished all bodily ills and uploaded ourselves to a hard-drive.
Consequently, if the long-term body image is distorted, if it represents, for instance, an octopus-shaped body, if it represents a part that no longer exists like an amputated limb or if it represents an artificial extension like a cane, then one can have bodily experiences in one's tentacle, phantom limb or at the tip of the cane.
