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Adam as Machine

From: Ed Prosser
Length: 00:01:23

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Small_anatomy_small Drawing from a rather mechanistic perspective of life, forensic pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton describes the human body as he sees it: electricity, pumps and shunts.

The title toys with the idea of Adam and Eve and how this throws up a very different view of the human body. However whichever you subscribe to, both are unified in the fact that they find beauty in the human form.

This piece was produced for and featured at an In The Dark listening event in London last august.

 

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Drawing from a rather mechanistic perspective of life, forensic pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton describes the human body as he sees it: electricity, pumps and shunts.

The title toys with the idea of Adam and Eve and how this throws up a very different view of the human body. However whichever you subscribe to, both are unified in the fact that they find beauty in the human form.

This piece was produced for and featured at an In The Dark listening event in London last august.

 

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http://onthenatureofthings.com/2011/07/20/adam-as-machine/