Capitalism, Technoscience and Contemporaneity

Abstract

This article explores complementary perspectives that weave and unweave the web of multiple meanings of the world and its radical images, imaginings and imaginaries. Phantasmagorical images of the world continually reconfigure our processes of cognition, memory, affectivity and human interrelation. On the threshold of these changes, fragile and uncertain hopes of remaking the world from the ruins of an anthropocentric image persist. The gap between techno-scientific progress and human progress has become alarmingly radicalized. What little is left of the world is transformed into a series of impoverished and fragmented mass-media images. In this context, there are signs of the emergence of a new epoch, the effects of which we are only just beginning to perceive. Capitalist modernity, in its scientifictechnical deployment, feeds back on the unfolding of a complex adventure of the borderline human condition. Modern and contemporary technosciences are engaged, perhaps unbridled, in a race for immortality. In the technoscientific womb, the ultra-human is gestated. Beyond the anthropotechnical imaginary, the advent of a new post-metaphysical era, marked by vanishing lines, can be glimpsed.