TECHNIFICATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND GENDER TECHNOLOGIES: CRITICAL NOTES FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL ABOLITIONISM

Abstract

Technological mediation in social dynamics transforms thought processes and identity, generating posthumanist approaches on how technological culture configures psychosexual identity. Purpose: To articulate an anthropological abolitionism (AbA) as a theoretical strategy to understand ‘gender’ from the contemporary philosophy of technology, conceiving it as a transductive operation that implies the configuration of a technified consciousness. Method: A qualitative methodology is used through the critical analysis of cosmotechnical and xenofeminist literature. Subsequently, with a cosmopolitical and technomaterialist approach, the concepts of technodiversity and intersectionality are integrated. Results: Three premises of the AbA are presented: a) psychosexual identity is inscribed in a cosmopolitical tension between the universal and the particular; b) human consciousness unfolds in a technified form, so it produces gender technologies within a culture; and c) human intelligence manifests a situated and technodiverse reality, so gender identity refers to one of its multiple modalities. Conclusions: AbA allows us to discuss the values attributed to psychosexual identities, examines the ontological qualities of the intelligences that produce these entities, and broadens the horizon of a psychology of gender, articulating perspectives for understanding identity in an increasingly technologized world.