THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BODY: NEW REALITY OR VIRTUAL REALITY?

Abstract

The body models the human being in his behaviors as in his logic but the human being must not fear that the body betrays his reason. Furthermore, if «the idea that techniques have the power to transform the human being is far from new», it is from this new hybridization that our question arises in the 21st century about the consequences of our power to transform the human being. The objective of efficiency, even productivity, which now guides our activities, leads to a normalization of the bodies. It is not yet a disappearance of the body but it is that of a perception which made the body an essential link sociability.