The Rise of Procedural Digital Humanity

This book argues that the digital revolution constitutes an anthropological turning point in human history. It examines the rise of a new procedural humanity Homo Externatus born from a profound cultural shift between logos, the symbolic foundation of thought grounded in language, truth, causality, and meaning, and arithmos , a procedural, a-semantic metaculture driven by calculation and correlation. Humanity is moving from a culture of differentiation, between true and false, good and evil, man and God, toward one of de-differentiation, where everything becomes calculable and thus comparable. Drawing on psychoanalysis, social theory, and geo-economic analysis, the book explores how digitalization, while seemingly unifying, actually fragments our society of individuals ; and asks whether it might herald the advent of a new form of totalitarianism.

Scholars, researchers, and students in social sciences, digital studies, philosophy and psychoanalysis will find this book invaluable. It offers a unique blend of insights, combining social sciences with psychoanalysis to illuminate the new interplay between the psychic and the social in the digital age. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the transformative impact of digitalization on human psyche, thought and society.

1: Introduction. Lost Unity, Generous Reward. - 2: Universal, Mysterious, Source of Life and Truth. - 3: A New Society: Open Source, Access, Transgression. - 4: A New Human: The Augmented " Humanet" . - 5: We Enter the Digital Orders. - 6: Externatus Descends from Aequalis. - 7: The Deconstruction of the One: A Long-term Western Adventure. - 8: The Family Expands. - 9: Anthropological Turning Points: Effects of Yesterday and Today. - 10: The One Without the Other. - 11: The Psychic Machanisms of Social Desymbolization. - 12: What New Psychic Economy? - 13: Desymbolization and Totalitarianism in the Era of Digital Outscourcing. - 14: From Supernature to Supersocial. - 15: Conclusion. Desymbolization Accelerates.