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Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire (2025)
by Christian Nirvana Damato
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“One may think that the history of the human culture is going to be enormously impoverished by the disappearance of the body, one may think that, on the contrary, human culture has been enriched by the renounce to presence and physical contact. It is not the intention of Damato to save this dilemma, His intention is rather to open a new field of investigation, and possibly to start a reflection on a more advanced dilemma: will the change of perception make possible the emergence of a new ontology, or is the disappearance of the body going to mark the final dissolution of human life itself?” — Franco ‘bifo’ Berardi
This book begins with an analysis of three iconic erotic texts from Masoch, Ballard and Bataille, and uses this analysis as the departure point for its main theoretical work on the four topics listed in the subtitle. The book passes through a lot of interesting phases, including an analysis of Phenomenology and Gucci, class struggle and OnlyFans and much more, until eventually arriving at the actual manifesto for Organ Multiplication and the beautifully named notion of the “Caged Sun”.
Expected around mid-June 2025, with a planned launch in Venice, this book could be described as a queering of psychoanalysis put together by the forerunner and editor of Inactual Magazine in Italy. This book was originally written and published in Italian, and has been translated in collaboration with the author to create this version in English language.