La colonización del sudor: la Internet de las cosas y despolitización política

Abstract

The following document is a synthesis of an ongoing investigation about the relationship between virtual reality, and its modulations and intensities, with the categories of biopolitics (Michel Foucault), immunization (Roberto Esposito) and animal laborans (Hannah Arendt). Three moments of virtual reality are exposed, namely, the classic user-computer relationship; the Internet of things or 5G; the personalized digital assistant, which are analyzed and reflected on the basis of five characteristics of this: uniting-separating, disembodiment, speed, depoliticization-demundization and the intelligibility of the flesh. The common thread of this analysis is the hypothesis that virtual reality tends to a “colonization of sweaty reality”.