Neocolonizations of the 21st century: bodies / emotions in digital capitalism

Abstract

Unraveling contemporary corporeal and emotional processes as a result of a series of multiscale technological and scientific colonizations is what Adrián Scribano's most recent book offers us: Colonization of the inner planet. In it, we find a route that without historiographic pretensions places us in a present – albeit dynamic – capable of explaining the cognitive, sensory and affective conquests, even hormonal and molecular, that capitalism has achieved in the 21st century, through mechanisms extractivists and consumer devices as [global] politics of the senses, sensibilities and morals. It is a theoretical-analytical proposal with an intersectional, antispeciesist and decolonial perspective with which to examine the colonization processes of humans and account for their possibilities of action.