Spaces and Places of Humanization: New Views of Technoscientific Productions
One of the outstanding features of the contemporary world is the multiplication of technoscientific innovations. How should they be viewed? Does the current space of critical reflection not render them suspect from the outset, subject to condemnation, guilty of undermining social ties and humanity? Are these innovations not dehumanizing by nature, as they tend to focus on efficiency, foster standardization and stifle the expression of the subjective? In this article, the author explores other ways of reflecting on the technosciences and the role they play in the debate on dehumanization and rehumanization. Based on research in which she followed the work of inventing a new contraceptive method, the author emphasizes the promises, but also the difficulties, of an approach that casts doubt on the apparently impenetrable and insurmountable boundaries between the world of things and that which is human.