Title: Refounding legitimacy towards Aethogenesis,
Abstract: The fusion of humans and technology takes us into an unknown world described
by some authors as populated by quasi living species that would relegate us -
ordinary humans - to the rank of alienated agents emptied of our identity and
consciousness. I argue instead that our world is woven of simple though
invisible perspectives which - if we become aware of them - may renew our
ability for making judgments and enhance our autonomy. I became aware of these
invisible perspectives by observing and practicing a real time collective net
art experiment called the Poietic Generator. As the perspectives unveiled by
this experiment are invisible I have called them anoptical perspectives i.e.
non-optical by analogy with the optical perspective of the Renaissance. Later I
have come to realize that these perspectives obtain their cognitive structure
from the political origins of our language. Accordingly it is possible to
define certain cognitive criteria for assessing the legitimacy of the anoptical
perspectives just like some artists and architects of the Renaissance defined
the geometrical criteria that established the legitimacy of the optical one.