Abstract
This contribution aims to offer a perspective on the surplus of the body according to Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). It will explore the thesis according to which the bulk of the human body tends to become a surplus within the context of “postindustrial cultureâ€Â and its informational apparatuses. This surplus presents an ambiguity. On one hand, the human body is conceived as a suffering and annoying surplus (as reduced to an anachronistic appendage of the “fingertips-keyboard†telematic interface). On the other hand, the human body manifests a creative potential open to biotechnological practices with emancipatory ambitions (the body as a field of possibilities to be realized in view of a full devotion to the dialogical life). In both cases, the importance of the bodily dimension of our experience as human beings is reduced, since our existential interests lie in the production of immaterial information
