The disappearance of the body as a necessary friction

Abstract

The first part states the reasons for the disappearance of the body: the influence of modern technology, effects on self-perception and on the perception of reality. It questions how to deal with the shift from physical reality as reference of existence toward an infinite spectrum of virtual realities. The second part concerns a way of thinking - a fiction to explain the phenomena of disappearance - in drawing a parallel to recent thinking models in physics formulating the disappearance of matter. This shift of thinking is so fundamental that it literally reverses our notion of body and materiality. The thesis tries to imagine and to explain a reappearance of the body, the birth of the concrete out of the immaterial. The last part images and models necessary, ambiguous spaces in a world where inside and outside, weight and lightness, solid and immaterial are no longer clearly defined positions but zones, uncertainties, overlays.