The cybernetic posthuman lives like a spider at the center of a web, presiding over a vast net(work) of gadgets, interfaces and sensors. The smartphone operates like an organ, extending the limits of the body beyond the skin like an eye on the back of our head. In this economy, the body has little choice but to invest in these asomatic capacities, as a matter of survival from the pauperizing maw of technocapital; in order to resist the vertiginous precipice of precarity, communication is replaced by extraction, as the drills are turned towards our brains.

Under this enigmatic title, Christian Nirvana Damato’s first major work is an original philosophical manifesto that approaches the subject, desire, and identity from the perspective of media theory, visual culture and phenomenology.