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By calling our civilization “protoglobal”, do we mean that it is in some sense doomed to globalization? The use of “proto-” by no means implies such fatalistic outcomes. When applied to contemporary phenomena, “proto-” indicates a possibility rather than a necessity. “Proto-” simply means “having the potential to become” or “starting to move in a certain direction”. Unlike the prefix “pre-”, which presupposes succession in time (cf. “pre-global”—“prior to becoming global”), “proto-” suggests a beginning, an embryo rather than a precursor, an open possibility rather than a sequence.
In this model, it is not a question of leaving the body behind but rather of extending embodied awareness in highly specific, local, and material ways that would be impossible without electronic prosthesis. (1999, pp. 290–1) Thus, the so-called “posthuman” does not involve any elimination of the human, but rather the expansion, even the extension of embodied awareness through a system of electronic implants and digital enhancements. The humanistic potential of new technologies was evident to its early prophets, such as M.
Consulem Paludatum. Exemplum Tractatus Summarii de Proferendis Finibus Imperii (Bacon, 1878, p. 120). Today, this discipline about the “expansion of the frontiers of the empire” would be identified as geopolitics. Thus, almost 500 years ago, Bacon created a kind of periodic table designed to both classify and predict scientific disciplines. Some of the blank spaces in this table have been filled as a result of the subsequent advances of the sciences, just as the empty squares of undiscovered elements have been gradually filled in Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements.
