Situated Tékhne beyond the performative: Metaformative bodies and the politics of technology in post-postmodernism

Communication technology is a key in the articulation of global standardisation in late capitalism. The biopolitical paradigm of social control is shifting towards new forms of technological embeddedness through new technologies of the body. Logocentric and discrete representations of the body are a key to the articulation of the standard model of technology and its constructions of corporeality. In dance and technology and other disciplines there is a potential to generate technological models that defy the logos and propose a paradigm open to multiple and changing specificities, going beyond the postmodern paradigm of performativity and parody into a new realm of metaformativity as both aesthetic and political paradigm.