Human possibility is never abstract; it is always mediated by the material and symbolic infrastructures through which life unfolds. In the contemporary moment, digital systems, artificial intelligence, and biotechnologies do not merely extend human capacities but reshape the very conditions of becoming.
Technological mediation is not neutral. Each device, platform, or technique imposes a structuring logic, privileging some forms of relation and foreclosing others. To live online is to inhabit algorithmic curation; to engage biotechnology is to reconstrue the body as manipulable material; to work with AI is to negotiate with non-human agents of pattern and prediction.
These mediations alter the scope of actualisation. They accelerate access, open novel possibilities, and generate new identities, but they also delimit: narrowing horizons to what can be computed, stored, or optimised. Human possibility becomes entangled with technical systems whose architectures preconfigure the fields of action and perception.
To study technological mediation is therefore to study how possibility is infrastructured. It reveals that becoming is always scaffolded by artefacts and systems, and that shifts in technology recalibrate the horizons of what can be imagined, enacted, and sustained.
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