“The Demiurgical Principle of Digital Senses” presented by Abbiatici
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Virtual (full papers)
Presentation Title:
- The Demiurgical Principle of Digital Senses
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Abstract:
The paper aims to investigate uncommon senses, human and non human, developed by cyborg and performative artists, specifically founders and members of Cyborg Foundation and Transpecies Society in Barcelona. While making use of advances in cybernetics, the new uncommon senses want to build bio-political networks, technologically capturing the energy of the living and discharging it into the human in a process reminiscent of the first Creation. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s sprawling thought, Katherine Hayles’s posthuman philosophy and the “re-cosmicisation” of the world by philosopher Yuk Hui, the paper discusses the way how new senses challenge the dualism of the categories deity/humanity, omnipresence/liminality, omniscience/human speculation, and opens up to a nomadism within the same categories. On the borderline between animism and transhumanism, the new sensory implants become the cornerstone of technological religions and, while expanding the sensory cognitive potential, become themselves part of an atypical process of biopolitical control of the world.
