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The Digital-Organic Fabric: Toward a New Ontology of the Technologically Augmented Body

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  • 1. Laboratory for Inorganic, Organic and Bio-Inspired Chemistry Research, University of Djelfa, PO Box 17000, Djelfa, Algeria

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What happens when technology ceases to be an external tool and becomes an internal, biological fabric? Drawing on cutting-edge 2025–2026 breakthroughs in nanotechnology, bio-communications, and neural interfaces (including hydrogel microprobes and DNA-based data storage), this paper offers a rigorous philosophical-technical investigation into the contemporary transhumanist shift.

By bridge-building between the hard sciences and critical theory, the study interrogates how the unmediated integration of synthetic materials into human biology reconfigures the very concepts of sovereignty, freedom, and the body. Utilizing the conceptual frameworks of Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Gilbert Simondon, alongside postcolonial critiques from Fanon and Mbembe, the paper introduces pioneering concepts such as the "Nano-Gestell" (Nano-Enframing), "Bare Neural Life," and the "Original Decision Problem." It challenges the reductionist fallacies of transhumanism and unmasks emerging structures of "neural colonialism," ultimately proposing a radical redefinition of cognitive liberty and somatic sovereignty for the augmented era.

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