The starting point of the author is a fact of the most common: in the middle of the weekend and late at night we receive an e-mail from work, read it and respond. What causes us to respond as if it were a real call to arms? How is it possible that, so many decades later and in times of peace, the ideal of the "total mobilization" expressed by Ernst Jünger in the 1930s has been fulfilled?

There is no doubt that the established relationship between technology and human beings is unequal. However, Ferraris moves away from the vision for which behind the technological emergency there is a strategy of domination and addresses this question from the point of view of the New Realism. It proposes an anthropology of the homo cellularis, which initially accepts the conception of the human being as a technical and therefore, constitutively dependent and alienated and then deconstruct it, thus opening the possibility to a realistic panorama of emancipation that does not neglect the program of the Illustration and Humanism.

Perhaps for the first time in the history of the world, the absolute is in our hands. But to have the world in the hands is also, automatically, to be in the hands of the world.