Więcej niż jednostki, mniej niż wielości: Ciała po antropocenie
More than Individuals, Less than Multitudes: Bodies after the Anthropocene

Summary/Abstract: This article argues that speculating about the world after the Anthropocene is inextricably linked to questioning the dominant (Western) modern conceptualiza- tions of the human body as a self-contained entity, separated from its environment. In this context, the author looks closely at two recent performative projects that use Virtual Reality (VR) as a mode of speculative world-building. By generating intense multisensory and cognitive-affective experiences, they create conditions for “exosomatization” (Stiegler), which allows participants to become other entities and experience their own body as a multitude. Analyzing the installation Symbiosis (2020) by the interdisciplinary collective Polymorf, the author points out that the experience problematizes the ways of thinking about relations between humans and more-than-humans dominant in contemporary environmental humanities. Scrutinizing the installation Alienarium 5 (2022) by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, he shows that the experience of the body as a multitude requires not only specific “matters of care” (Puig de la Bellacasa), but also new ways of thinking and expe- riencing time.

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