Corps numériques : projections, extensions, simulacres

Digital bodies are computerized, technologized, namely detached from their “analogue materiality” to be “reincorporated” into different “digital substances”. Far from simply entailing material transformations, such dynamics involve also, and above all, relevant changes in terms of meaning-making processes and experience of the self, of the other and of the world in which the body lives and acts, and to which it gives a meaning (while giving meaning to itself). The article examines these processes by introducing three thematic figures to describe the complexity of contemporary digital bodies, identifying them as projections, extensions, or simulacra.