Dall'uomo esposto al soggetto esposto: il concetto di interfaccia in alcuni filoni di riflessione sulla tecnica dal Settecento a Marcel Mauss

The notion of environment is not a recent notion. Nowadays the reference to the environment appears more and more widespread in debates, in scientific and artistic works, in popularization spaces and increasingly pervades individual affective spaces and individual and collective theories and political practices. As far as the environment enters the axiological field, it enters as a fragile element, inseparable from the individual and collective anthropic action, through what we summarize with the notion of environmental crisis. The environmental crisis allows to reopen areas of value and interest in the present, at the same time provoking a reinterpretation and a reorientation of past theories and practices. From today’s environmental crisis, it is possible to trace figures which, in the past, represented the relations of entities with their environment and, among them, of man with his living environment. Two are the main figures through which we intend to resume a relationship with our past read through the environmental crisis: 1) the figure of the “interface” as what demarcates a relationship of inherence and separation between an interior and an exterior, that remarks a relationship that is characterized by necessity but also by contingency; 2) the figure of the “exposure” relationship, through which we want to think about forms of vulnerable subjectivity, exposed to the relationships and to the chains in which subjects are inserted and which, in turn, they can expose to continuous modifications others subjects and the common living environment. Through the concepts of “interface” and “exposure” we have been able to follow the production of knowledge forms related to the inherence between interiority and the environment that have been produced in history and that have emerged through the provocation of a past induced by transformation that is today’s environmental crisis.