ABSTRACT
In historical moments of technoscientific developments, the human can be affected as a species, as an idea or as a representation of himself. In these days, among the practices involving technologies, the biohacking is a potential term that encompasses different actions and ideas, and it keeps a specific premise of acting on organic material [homo-thing] with the aim of ‘improving’ the human being, whether through how many different forms it may take. This essay has the objective of thinking about the process of subjectivization of a posthuman subject, starting from an example taken from a biohacking event occurred in São Paulo. To do so, we will draw some references about the cyborgism as a movement that enacts the metaphor for a hybrid subjectivity, and after that, we will go through the concept of posthumanism and two of its most interesting expressions: transhumanism and the posthuman critical. In the end, we will argue that in the case of practitioners and people hybridized by the biohacking, the notion of self-care is a logical way of approaching the subjectivization process of a subject through the technologies of the self.
Keywords:
Subjectivity; cyborguism; posthumanism