Social media, beauty standards and the discriminatory bias in body transformation practices: a commentary on why posthuman thinking matters

Abstract

The perfection industry: human or post-human? discussionIn "We post-humans: from genesis to freedom", Pussetti critically reflects on the meaning of what we can understand today as "human" following, in particular, the growing use of medical biotechnologies (such as endocrinology, genetic engineering, cosmetic surgery, and dermatology) for betterment purposes. While the history of the human species has always been accompanied by practices of body transformation due to humans' inherent aspiration and tension to construct, alter and improve their own selves, the contemporary proliferation of less invasive and low-cost cosmetic procedures has provided us incredible chances of transform-ability and new opportunities of "molding" the body we would like to have. Drawing from Remotti's 1 concept of anthropo-poiesis, which indicates the various processes of self-construction of the individual particularly from the point of view of body modification, Pussetti argue that we are actively engaged in a continuous process of self-construction thanks to socialization, acculturation, and our deliberate practices of body modifications. A feeling of incompleteness spurs

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