How should we rethink the basis of subjectivity in the age of digitalized capitalism?
This paper tackles this question in terms of evolution, empathy, and rhythm. These
three concepts are closely related with each other in the points of human physicality
and its evolutional morphology. Subjectivity can be recaptured through rethinking the
physical basis of humans’ intrinsic ability to be empathetic to others, while
transforming our view from the brain-centered evolutionary aspect to another
perspective. This view is found in Shigeo Miki and Nakamura Yu¯ jiro¯’s arguments on
the morphological evolutions of inner organs such as the lung that exhales due to
(pre-) human physical memory when opened to the ancient rhythm of atmospheres
such as the sea. Moreover, the evolutional history of inner organs is a way to access the
vital rhythm. Before stepping into it, we critically examine scholars such as Felix
Gattari, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Bernard Stiegler, and André Lerois-Goulin. On the
issue of technology’s control over human society, we tend to think that this
environment is made by the evolution of human intelligence based on the brain.
Against it, this paper reveals an alternative view of human physicality in terms of
lungs and breathing as the basis of empathy.
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