Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire (2025) by Christian Nirvana Damato
Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire (2025) by Christian Nirvana Damato
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“One may think that the history of the human culture is going to be enormously impoverished by the disappearance of the body, one may think that, on the contrary, human culture has been enriched by the renunciation of presence and physical contact. It is not the intention of Damato to save this dilemma, his intention is rather to open a new field of investigation, and possibly to start a reflection on a more advanced dilemma: will the change of perception make possible the emergence of a new ontology, or is the disappearance of the body going to mark the final dissolution of human life itself?” — Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
"Media bombard us with speculations about how artificial intelligence will affect our lives, asserting itself as an alien power. Instead of merely extending our bodily organs and technological machines to serve us—making our lives less stressful and more satisfying—it will effectively regulate and dominate even our innermost feelings and desires. Surprisingly, although we believe we live in an era of sexual permissiveness, there are far fewer texts on the “transformations of sociality and sexuality in relation to digital technology,” i.e., on “the ways in which devices and platforms influence and produce normative systems capable of changing the way we perceive, desire, and relate to others”. Christian Damato’s Multiplication of Organs—Body, Technology, Identity, Desire addresses precisely this topic in all its dimensions, from fascinating analyses of wearable technologies to broader implications of digisexuality." — Slavoj Žižek
SYNOPSIS:
Multiplication of Organs Manifesto is an essay that delves into the transformations of sociality and sexuality in the context of digital technologies. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends philosophy, erotic literature, media theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, and neuroscience, the text explores how devices, platforms, and technologies shape and produce normative systems that influence our perceptions, desires, and relationships with others. By examining the interplay between desire and digital mediation and drawing comparisons with authors such as Deleuze, Ballard, Žižek, Butler, Preciado, Bataille, and others, this book aims to present a new theoretical, critical, and philosophical perspective in the contemporary discourse on the relationship between humans, technology, and society.
This book begins with an analysis of three iconic erotic texts from Masoch, Ballard and Bataille, and uses this analysis as the departure point for its main theoretical work on the four topics listed in the subtitle. The book passes through a lot of interesting phases, including an analysis of Phenomenology and Gucci, class struggle and OnlyFans and much more, until eventually arriving at the actual manifesto for Organ Multiplication and the beautifully named notion of the “Caged Sun”.
BIO:
Christian Nirvana Damato is a writer, curator, and independent researcher working in the fields of philosophy, technology, psychoanalysis, and visual culture. He teaches media theory at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Turin and runs various workshops on publishing and writing. He writes for and collaborates with various magazines and publishing houses. He is the founder and editorial director of Inactual. He has also published Medial Disorders. Interpretive and Non-statistical Compendium of Technological Disorders. Vol I, with contributions by Geert Lovink, Alfie Bown, Isabel Millar, Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture) et al. (ed. by Inactual, 2024) and Wearable Statistical Desires. Re-programming the performativity of the body through digisexuality (Mimesis 2025; Everyday Analysis, 2025) and Medial Disorders Vol II.
DETAILS:
Authored by Christian Nirvana Damato
Foreword by Vincenzo Estremo
Afterword by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
CAT. # BECOMING009
ISBN: 978-9925-8207-0-2 (Print), 978-9925-8207-1-9 (Digital)
13x19cm, 146 pages
E-book available via Metalabel
This book was originally written and published in Italian, and has been translated in collaboration with the author to create this version in the English language.
TO BE CITED AS:
Damato, C. N. (2025) Multiplication of Organs Manifesto: Body, Technology, Identity, Desire. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming.
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