Originary Technicity, Animacy and the Use of Bodies

Abstract

Fundamental, as it is, to understand the background all in all “anthropophagic” of interpersonal relations of indiscriminate consumerism of all by all, the idea of the use of bodies proves crucial for the humanist regulation against abuse, manipulation and exploitation. In turn, the acquired notion of originary technicity, as the technological condition of anthropos itself, means that neither body, nor language, evades the availability of all things in the direction pointed by technology. Emerging presently as the grid of intelligibility of the world and of humankind itself, it opens the path to a post-humanist critique of the instrumental, prosthetic of the essential serviceability of technics, all the while it disavowals the notion that the body, or belonging to a gender, or desire and sexuality for that matter, can be the locus of resistance to technologically mediated power-knowledge relations. The animacy upon which rests the former in the age of biopolitics comprise the entire corporeal prime matter in all its levels, vegetative, animal, relational, and projects itself in the so called post-liberatory politics in which is at stake, not anymore the definition and the practice of rights, liberties and guarantees of classical Enlighted politics, but the pursuit of experimental ways of life, as in the case of technoperformative counter-sexuality. Technophiliac experimental life operating at the level of morphological liberty, bears, notwithstanding, decisive epistemopolitical implications.