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Contents
1 History of Modern Era
21th Century.................................... 4
Body................................................. 4
Fashion............................................ 6
Life................................................... 8
2 Today
Body without Organ...................... 10
Tuber Plants.................................... 11
Pleats............................................... 12
Body & Apparel............................... 13

Human Evolution
Big Questions
Having look these image of human evolution, you can now discuss the
following big questions:
Are we animals? Which quality or feature can differenciate human
beings from other species?
What are the similarities we share with humans in the past? You can
only focus on the 21th century.
Did human body of the 21th century look like ours? If not, what are
the differences? Try to think about how did their body form affect
their posture.

Simplified version of a highly resolved Tree of Life, based on
completely sequenced genomes.

1 Life in 21th Century
Big Questions
Having read these chapter, you can now discuss the following big questions:
How did human body limit garment design?
How did people from the 21th century store their clothes?
Can you explain the relationship bewteen their body and the clothes they wore?
Did the former serve for the latter, or inversely?
1.1 Human Body
Knowledge and Understanding
The human body is the structure of a human being.
It is composed of many different types of cells that
together create tissues and subsequently organ
systems. They ensure homeostasis and the viability
of the human body.
It comprises a head, neck, trunk (which includes the
thorax and abdomen), arms and hands, legs and
feet.
The human body is composed of elements including
hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, calcium and phosphorus.
These elements reside in trillions of cells and noncellular
components of the body.

Organs
Important to know
People in the 21 century did
not have the free body as us
today. Each of their organ
was in the fixed position as
image beside shown and
served the exclusive functions
respectively. Anthropologists
have studied the impact of
organ system on the body
form, and consequently on
the unitary beaty in the past.
1.2 Daily Fashion
Commonly Used Fabrics

*Cotton
Cotton, the most widely used natural fiber for clothing, grows in a capsule
around the seeds of cotton plants. A single fiber is an elongated cell that has
a flat, twisted, hollow structure. It has a medium-good elasticity, but with
a lower resilience and a tendency to wrinkle. The perception on the skin is
comfortable and soft, has a good absorbency and conducts heat well. Despite
this, after long periods of use and prolonged exposure to the sun, it weakens.
Cotton is widely used in numerous textile products and is commonly used to
produce garments such as sweaters, towels, bathrobes, etc.
*Linen
Linen, one of the most expensive natural fibers, is produced from the flax
plant. It is produced with a high use of manual labor, and is therefore produced
in small quantities. However the linen fabric is appreciated for its exceptional
freshness in the case of hot temperatures.
It is known to be the strongest plant fiber. In spite of this, it has a low
elasticity, and therefore it easily ripples. It is a relatively smooth fabric,
but becomes softer after washing, and is highly absorbent. It is a good
conductor of heat and keeps it fresh and bright during the time, it is therefore
characterized by a very durable resistance.
In the clothing field it is used for the production of clothes, dresses, skirts,
shirts, etc. Very often it is used as a blend with cotton to make it softer to the
touch and pleasant to wear.
*Wool
The wool fiber grows from sheepskin and is a relatively coarse and curled fiber
with scales on the surface. It is composed of proteins. The appearance of the
fiber varies depending on the breed of the sheep. Finer, softer and warmer
fibers tend to have more numerous and regular scales. It generally has a curled
appearance, and as a fabric it is very elastic, and another feature that could be
advantageous is that it is resistant to static electricity.
In clothing it is used for the production of jackets, dresses, trousers, sweaters,
hats, etc. It is a purely winter fabric, comfortable and pleasant to wear, which
keeps the body warm.
*Silk
The silk is a fine continuous filament, which unfolds from the cocoon of a
caterpillar moth known as the silkworm. It is composed of proteins. It is very
bright, thanks to the triangular prismatic structure of the silk fiber, which
allows the silk cloth to refract light at different angles.

Garment sturctures
folding pattern

2 Today
Big Questions
Having read these chapter, you can now discuss the following big questions:
What aspects of our body have changed?
Why is the idea of Body Without Organs(BWO) important?
How to define the current body shape?
Are there any potential problems about our body?
2.1 Body without organs
Knowledge and Understanding
Deleuze regards the body as a "body without organs." The body no longer needs the stickiness between
organs and organs. It gets rid of the shackles of the organism and manifests itself as a body state that
occurs freely in various fields.
What is a "body without organs"? Deleuze is a philosopher who creates weird, obscure, and mysterious
concepts. There are many different discourses on the organless body in his works. The meaning of
"without" needs to be distinguished here. There are two interpretations of "nothing": one is neglected
or disappeared; second, it does not exist or did not exist. According to Deleuze’s argument, the organfree
body does not mean that there are no visible organs, but that the body is no longer dependent on
the bondage of organs/organisms. The body is a free event, an inorganic body, and it must get rid of the
tradition. Conceptual constraints. Therefore, "nothing" corresponds to the first explanation, that is,
for the sake of a pure body, organs will deliberately disappear from the body. The body still has organs,
but here, the body is no longer composed of organs in the physiological sense, it is more similar to a
metaphorical term in the philosophical and aesthetic sense.

TUber Plants
Deleuze does not only use the term tuber in a biological sense, but
uses tuber to describe multiple, irregular, non-central and different
forms. In other words, Deleuze uses tubers to metaphorically abandon
the center hierarchy, structure, and organic physical existence.
Deleuze argues that tuber can be any not standardized production
out of things, such as a game, a city, a war, or a network chat, their
common characteristic is unable to forecast the ultimate form or as a
result, there is not a fixed nature of the core or can be expected the
development trend, also cannot find the center of the decisive factors,
but will produce unexpected variety may at any time.

TUber Plants
Deleuze classifies everything in the world into various folds, which are
the particles of the world. The existence, interaction and development
of everything in the world are the process of folding and wrapping
various folds, that is, the interactive process of pleating and unfolding
the folds. The folds exist in the nomadic space, crossing between
matter and soul.