A máquina no biológico: a construção biopolítica do próximo humano

• Autor(a) principal: Manduca, Alexandre
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20695
• topic: Ciborgues; Biopolítica; Computadores e civilização; Cyborgs; Biopolitics; Computers and civilization; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The selection presented in this thesis is the construction of a new human being by means of Biopolitics and of such discourses as the cyborg imaginary, the machine-body and the machine in the biological body. The artificially enhanced body brings life, as a biopolitical device, to a new level, fruit of a symptom of the cultural and communicational imaginary about new possibilities of body management that permeate the appropriation, manipulation and edition of life. It is believed that through a hybrid body the human being would be able to distend and expand itself in order to embrace machinic devices and to serve as an object within the capitalist logic and the consumption society. The Cyborgism in literature and in cinema contributes to this imaginary of a new human being who might be different ‒ a next human, from the classic Frankenstein’s monster to the most recent science fiction films, in which hybrid beings are patterns of overcoming a body that looks obsolete. Biopolitics reinforces this moment in a conceptual and precise way when it transfers to the human the management of one's own life, as observed both in Michel Foucault and in the studies of Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri and Nikolas Rose, the main guiding principle of this work. In such scenario, one sees a new journey of the next human, who, through the body, undergoes mutations and is extended by use of machinic experiments, such as grafts, prostheses, chips and silicon. These are potentialized for physically disabled people and for assistive technologies; also, in the Bioidentity phenomenon and in the quality of a body extended to all possible apparatuses, as a biopolitical element that does not cease to be biological. The trajectory of this thesis is to discuss the human as an unfinished project, not as a hybrid body or as a cyborg, but a body ready for the inclusion of the machine in the human through the interference in the DNA. It becomes thus pure information, without ceasing to be biological. The machine in the biological is the extended body, opening the possibility of adapting to the new machinic devices