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Abstract
The paper outlines, in the first part, the constant presence of technique and technologies from the Homeric Iliad to the society of the spectacle. It then shows the never neutral but always political dimension of this development up to the contemporary dominion of the digital, the virtual and the transhuman. Finally, it discusses the latter, starting from the phylogenetic and at the same time historical archaism of prostheses, of their consubstantial nature with respect to that of the body, of the fact that from the beginning human corporeality is an inseparable whole of nature, culture and technique. The dreams of the transhumanist visionaries must therefore be understood, explained and deconstructed starting from a materialistic and temporal metaphysics.