The effects of biometrics on the understanding of who we are
Starting from the German idealism perspective of subjectivity formation, and advancing to the post-Hegelian tradition, in this paper I defend the necessity of praising our bodies as the primary source defining who we are. That means that any technology dealing directly with the materiality of our bodies should be looked at with attention, and the leading technology doing so is biometrics, for instance when we use face recognition to unlock our cellphones or a fingerprint reader to access our computers. Karen Spisso I am a philosopher-to-be living and studying in Vienna. I started my career in Brazil studying German Philosophy and pedagogy applied to Philosophy. My main academic interests are the early writings of Karl Marx, Critical Theory, and History and Methodology of Economics. The effects of biometrics on the understanding of who we are When my finger presses the biometric reader, and my body is encoded, the device reduces a part of me to a set of skin ridges and valleys, 1’s and