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At the end of the 19th century Friedrich Nietzsche virulently denounced the great poverty of language-based communication. He did not want to eradicate language, but claimed to replace it with “a new lyre” capable of transfiguring aesthetically the world and life. An inverted reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra could, however, make Nietzsche’s philosophical poem appear as a disturbing dystopia in which the superhuman, created by the philosopher with the aim of overcoming nihilism, takes on the form of an unpredictable hypertechnological transhumanism.