Emanuele Coccia's work, at the junction between philosophy and a generalized ethology, is composed of a myriad of thought-thinking that envelop us. Here, the starting point is the metamorphosis: from caterpillar to butterfly, "as if we had six legs half of our life and lived hooked on the floor eating leaves, and we passed the other half fluttering in the air and making love every two hours ".
In this way he is running out the word-vehicle of him, metamorphosis, as an antidote and alternative to any evolutionism. The old hypothesis of a single and very life that unfolds in continuous variation through the forms is resumed to think everything in the key of a multispecific multiplicity. In this hypothesis, birth, food and death - that is, having been born, eating and being eaten up by the same worms - are the experience of moving to the body of others, or to incorporate the body of others.
This vision stumbling all identity: The self becomes migrant, in a knowledge of migrating from body in body, a letting migrate the denture self, which came to us from another part and that it will go to other destinations and ways of life. A new figure for our being in the world, without man as an organizing center, and a new possible relationship of coexistence and exchange with the other living and with Earth.
And since of metamorphosis it is, the book will culminate with a thought about the virus, because the future, "says Coccia," is closer to the way viruses than human forms or monuments live. You do not have to get vaccinated against the time virus, it is useless, our flesh will never stop changing. "