ABSTRACT

The cellphone is a speaking organ, one that is intended to speak to someone far away. The use of cellphones increases the human capacity for language, making it possible to send words to very distant places, or, theoretically speaking, to any place at any time. The cellphone dramatically maximizes the strength of the human body. Every human body attempts to empower itself, increasing its functionality, but the problem is that the cellphone is always involved in a two-way process of communication, its maximized functionality depending on the existence of another cellphone. In a society where people organize their social circles by means of their cell-phones, not having a cellphone amounts to being abandoned by society. Indeed, this new human-machine cyborg is, on the one hand, liberating our bodies from their intrinsic limitations, and, on the other, is subjecting them to the wretched condition in which they are drowned by cellphones.