Altered otherness: or about the place that technology occupies between human beings and other animals

Abstract

Throughout the essay, the author will try to show that the technique configures the existing relationship between human beings and other animals. This thesis is accompanied by an assumption from the philosophy of technology that affirms not only the existence of technical objects, but above all human beings are a technical result. After all, human beings can be considered both an imitation of an animal and an imitation of a technique. Furthermore, the author presents a different ontological framework in which human beings, other animals and technical objects are characterized as altered alterations, which co-emerge in time and co-inhabit complex networks where continuous alteration occurs, of both the form and the essence of each particular entity. With this ontological force, the essay seeks to develop three themes, based on the particular case of axolotls: 1) the relationship between human beings and axolotls; 2) the relationship between axolotls and the technical complex called a laboratory that exercises a kind of power over life; 3) the relationship between human beings, biotechnology and regeneration. As a result of the conclusions obtained in each of the sections, the author will propose that the regeneration of life implies a new way in which human beings, other animals and technical objects will be able to co-emerge in time and co-inhabit the Earth.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5894934

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