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Um rosto para vestir, um corpo para usar: narrativa literária e biotecnologia

The tensions present in the "human nature" in the natural/artificial/human relation, in the representations of the body and the subjectivity, are objects of analysis of this article. Having as reference a cognitive aproaching of the anthropology of the art, I present and I analyze and show the aesthetic of the evil and the horror, present in the literary narrative of Marcelo Mirisola, demonstrate the principles of inteligibility of this narrative contrasting it in the land of the recent transformations of the biotechnology, showing some proposals of the anthropology contemporary that comes arguing its effects on the notions of "human nature", "nature/culture", "person/organism".

anthropology of art; biotechnology; body; human nature


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