CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Gabriele Scardovi /
Interpreting the transition from human beings to human-robotic hybrids, this paper considers the two opposite tendencies of keeping the biological form of life and its neglect in favor of whole artificial bodies, to understand what room there would be for a post-human freedom of movement and action. Comparing some conceptions from last century’s anthropological philosophy with the inclination to ‘become a thing’ that can be found in some process of hybridization with machines, the paper deals with biological metabolism, human eccentricity and the extreme introversion that would possibly be obtained in consequence of cyborg’s definitive success. It concludes that it is impossible to exclude that in the future the story of the human species will be represented as an arch of parabola lifting from the level of the inert thing, and finally going back to it.
