Entre augmentation et défaillance : Le développement du transhumanisme et le vacillement de l’identité humaine

Abstract

"In this article, we will demonstrate that the image of the “posthuman” body revives the primary fantasy of a fragmented body, the first representation before the alienating and necessary identification with an intact and coherent body. By evoking the possibility of a return to this multiple body and by reviving the desire to experiment on this body, transhumanist discourses summon as many mortifying anxieties as jubilant hopes. Familiarization with the representation of the fragmented body would then make it possible to leave the current discursive terrain, mined and dichotomous, and to approach with more lucidity the inevitable impact of the development of technology on the human body."