Humans, undoing the limits that has long defined them

If, as Serres argues, we are losing our finitude today in demonstrable ways, if we are indeed undoing the kinds of spatial and temporal limit that have long defined us, the boundaries of subject and object, then the human “itself ” likewise grows increasingly difficult or even impossible to locate clearly or define securely.

The category of the human, indeed, can seem to prove endlessly plastic, open-ended, or indeterminate—and it would be in this sense especially that our technoscientific re-creation of the human recalls the thinking of mystical tradition, where the human subject, like the God in whose image the subject is created, can prove at bottom incomprehensible because unbounded or indefinite.