Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

Leeuw, Marc De; Wichelen, Sonja van

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“…The artificialist conception was thus replaced by a naturalistic one (de Leeuw and van Wichelen 2020; Dabin 1950;Davies and Naffine 2001;Frow 2020;Grear 2013). That evolution then led to the modern concept of the living human being as an autonomous, moral, and responsible subject, endowed with agency and the ability to pursue a life plan (Brożek 2017;Dabin 1950;Davies and Naffine 2001;De Leeuw andvan Wichelen 2020 Frow 2020;Grear 2013;Grzegorczyk 1989;Kurki 2017a, b;Radin 1993;Selkälä and Rajavuori 2017;Strangas 1989).…”

Section: From Artificialism To Naturalism From Materialisation To Dem...mentioning

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Person, Property, Relationships: A Cont(r)actual View

Croce,

Swennen

2024

Law Critique

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This article challenges the long-standing boundary that separates human beings from non-human entities, whether animate or inanimate. In doing so, it engages with the jurisprudential strands that debate the transformative power of law in moving towards a fuller recognition of human relations with non-human entities. To this end, the article first examines the legal theoretical strategies that scholars have so far developed to overcome the dichotomous vision that pits humans against non-humans. It then argues for a new model of understanding property, called cont(r)actualisation, which seeks to reconfigure existing strategies. It makes the case that the legal categories of person and object should be brought together under the overarching heading of ‘legal entity’. Rather than being built around humans as persons/subjects and non-human entities as objects/objects, law should be built around the contingent points of contact between particular entities in a particular web of relations. In this way, the article advances a view that does justice to how these entities contribute to what human beings are and do.

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Section: From Artificialism To Naturalism From Materialisation To Dem...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Person, Property, Relationships: A Cont(r)actual View

Croce,

Swennen

2024

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“…However, gradually, to preserve the lives of his loved ones, he fully embraced the cyborgization process. Within this context, the cyborgization process is directly dependent on a therapeutic justification for doing it, which, from a bioethical and religious perspective, does not violate moral values nor the sacredness of the body and soul (De Leeuw and Van Wichelen, 2020;Donaldson et al, 2018;Hrynkow, 2020).…”

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Defying the Gods and the Odds: On Being a Cyborg

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Humanity's fascination for achieving something beyond what is given by an Almighty divinity can be found in many episodes since ancient times. Our quest for creation, extension, and controlling different forms of life, such as gods do, has been semiotically echoed through religions, myths, SCI-FI productions, and, of course, science. From the magical creation of Homunculi to the Altered Carbon dystopian setting, several issues arise from this complex relationship, perhaps mainly because of the rebellious act of benevolence committed by Prometheus, the fire (technology)-bringer. Although prior studies investigated technology consumption from different perspectives, they mostly employed a Heideggerian approach to them and, thus, viewed the technological device as only a tool. Given the consumption of insideable technologies, the way that we have been experiencing the dissolving boundaries between humans and machines, and the emerging changes in the human ontological status, the ensuing consequences, remain overlooked. To explore this singular phenomenon, based on abductive reasoning, I developed my theorization on the Interactive Self, mostly based on Sartre's latter existential-phenomenology approach. To do so, I had a prolonged and intensive immersion in the biohacking context, specifically grinding (cyborgs), that began in 2017 with a combination of netnography, ethnography, phenomenological interviews, and autoethnography. To analyze the large collected dataset, I followed the French Semiotics postulates, especially taking into account the existentialphenomenological turn in the Parisian School of Semiotics. As a result of this inquiry, my theoretical claim is that the Interactive Self is sustained by the process of the externalization of the internal and the internalization of the external in dialectical and perpetual dynamics. To sustain this argument and answer my research questions, I present this novel concept in two ways: First, I describe the conceptual components for the ontological condition of being a cyborg by means of NFC microchip consumption. Subsequently, I promote an articulation of Sartre's modes of existence within the aspect of volitional cyborgization, which places PUC-Rio -Certificação Digital Nº 1711876/CA humanity one step closer in its ancient and ongoing dream of performing god-like miracles. In considering technology not as a mere tool to an end, as Heidegger would, I argue that it is a living, magical, and vibrant matter that has the power to change our ontological condition as human beings. In doing so, my research contributes to discussions on technology consumption, identity projects, and, tangentially, bioethics in consumer research within the context of Transhumanism.

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Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

Person, Property, Relationships: A Cont(r)actual View

Person, Property, Relationships: A Cont(r)actual View

Defying the Gods and the Odds: On Being a Cyborg

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