This article focuses on the notion of ‘technique of the body’ classically elaborated by Marcel Mauss in order to affirm the body in action as a relational matrix of the digital sociality. The mind computational theory applied to the digital calculator has reduced the body to an intransitive locus of action. The system of symbols that connects the biological body with its sociocultural performance has in fact caused the ‘exile of experience’ and the reduction of contingency to a ‘non-necessary existence’. Technology is the real counterpart in the world of relationships and processes that evolve and develop in the biological body. Modern western thought has considered technology as an ‘objective system’ of relationships external to action, transforming the biological body in the conflictual threshold of action in society. This article applies the notion of ‘body technique’ to genetic determination and to the synchronism of body rhythms, proposing it as a methodological key, useful to reconstruct the relational fragmentation that afflicts today digital societies.
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