Technomagical rites

excesses and psychocultural alterations after humanism

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2025.1.47762

Keywords:

connective images, magic

Abstract

The paradigm of connection that marks our culture, in all its media and physical, natural and societal variations, could therefore refer to a renewed form of magical participation thanks to which, after centuries of separation, humans are rediscovering their profound concordance, their interdependence and even their close dependence on their surroundings. In the midst of violence and alienation reminiscent of the spells, curses and incantations of timeless folk legends, technomagical practices and imaginaries are emerging which, by decentralizing the human being in relation to the system of objects, machines, networks and the biosphere, foreshadow the new flesh that is to come. Electronic flesh: elementary forms of post-humanism.

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Author Biography

Vincenzo Susca, Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier, Hérault, France

Professor of Sociology of the Imaginary and Medialogy at Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier. Member of the LEIRIS research laboratory, director of the series L'imaginaire et le contemporain (Imagination and the Contemporary) at Liber (Montreal), and visiting professor at several universities. He has published several books on the imaginary, media, and politics, translated into French, Spanish, English, and Portuguese, including: À l'ombre de Berlusconi (2006), Transpolitica (2008, with D. de Kerckhove), Gioia Tragica (2010), and Industrie culturelle et vie quotidienne (Cultural Industry and Everyday Life) (2021). He has curated many artistic and scientific events and, with A. Béhar, is the author of the play Angelus Novissimus. In Brazil, he published Nos limites do imaginário (2007), Pornocultura (2017, with C. Attimonelli), As Afinidades connectivas (2019), Aurora digital (2021, with C. Attimonelli) and Tecnomagia (2024), by Editora Sulina and Depois da Arte (2025) by Univille.

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Published

2025-09-25

How to Cite

Susca, V. (2025). Technomagical rites: excesses and psychocultural alterations after humanism. Revista FAMECOS, 32(1), e47762. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2025.1.47762

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Cyberculture