ABSTRACT
In a posthumanist view, knowledge is conjugation with alterities, integration of other perspectives, distance from the anthropocentric perspective. In other words, knowledge operates a kind of anthropodecentrism. This produces two relevant consequences: the nonhuman assumes the role of alterity; it is recognized as a dialogical partner and thus a referent, able to intervene, by way of a referential effect, in human predicates; the human assumes the contours of an integrative dimension, the result of hybridizing processes and ever more open to hybridizations, and it loses the sense of emanation of man. Humanism rejects the participation of any nonhuman alterity in building the human dimension, to the point of expelling divinity from the anthropopoietic process and, equally, negating other forms of earthly alterities which are not strictly human. Zoo technical practices of the post-Neolithic in fact open the way to a new category of alterity, and towards which to orient processes of socialization: the machine.
