What is the human self becoming in the age of daily interaction with digital devices?
An unprecedent exploration of the relationship between body, mind and technology in the digital world.
In a world where artificial intelligence generates faces, voices, and presences capable of simulating empathy, the digital self explores an anthropological mutation currently underway. Starting from the neuroscience of embodiment and the now classic theory of embodied simulation, Vittorio Gallese constructs a new paradigm for thinking about contemporary subjectivity.
From mirror neurons to algorithmic subjectivity, this book traces an original and multidisciplinary itinerary that crosses neuroscience, philosophy, aesthetics, and media theory to rethink the self as an embodied, relational, and technologically modulated reality.
The theoretical culmination of the volume is the proposal of a radical aesthetics: a politics of feeling that restores intensity, opacity, and unpredictability to relationships in a world dominated by transparent interfaces and predictive algorithms. At a time when otherness risks becoming a function, and retreating into solitude a project, there is an urgent need to return to thinking about the body, not as nostalgia, but as a generative condition of every possible future.
A necessary essay for understanding the metamorphosis of the self in the age of code.
