Communication and midiatization between gods and men 325 In the first case, we have an anthropocentrically based science, while in the second, the subject is placed as a species that adapts while trying to find, in collective coexistence, alter- natives to knowledge, in order to be able to live. In the first case, science is immunizing insofar as it proposes laws with a totaliz- ing meaning; in the second, science is empirical and experiments with alternatives to select the possible instruments of immunization. In this sense, the selection of species is an immunizing form of the species/man, but it is also, and at the same time, its definitive condemnation, if it does not correspond towhat is considered proper to the species. In this sense, the media, as a form of power over ways of thinking and feeling, has found, in science since Darwin, the appropriate way to conserve and improve the species and is transformed into a techno-immunization aimed at both the body and the mind, while man is transformed from a media object into the subject of his mediatization: Mientras hasta cierto punto fue el hombre quién se proyectó en el mundo, ahora es el mundo, en to- dos sus componentes naturales y artificiales, materiales y electrónicos, químicos y telemáticos, el que penetra dentro de él en una forma que parece abolir la separación misma entre adentro y afuera, derecho y revés, superficial y profundo: en vez de limitar-se a asediarnos desde el exterior, la técnica se instaló en nuestros propios miembros...(Ahí) se trata más bien de una interacción entre distintas especies, o inclusive entre mundo orgánico y mun- do artificial, que implica una auténtica interrupción de la evolución biológica por medio de la se- lección natural y su inscripción en un régimen de sentido diferente (Esposito, 2005, p. 208/209)4. 4 While to a certain extent it was man who projected himself into the world, in all its natural and artificial, material and electronic, chemical and telematic compo- nents, who penetrates into it in a way that seems to abolish the very separation between inside and outside, right and wrong, superficial and deep: instead of limiting himself to besieging us from the outside, technology has installed itself in our own members... (There) it is rather a question of an interaction between different species, or even between the organic world and the artificial world, which implies an authentic interruption of biological evolution by means of natural selection and its inscription in a different regime of meaning (Esposito, 2005, p. 208/209).
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