Berque, Augustin <br/><br/>
Debarring Medial Work 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Medial work is that performed by the medial body, i.e. the eco-techno-symbolic milieu necessary to the existence of the individual person. It is the chora required by the topos of our animal body. However, modern ontology does not acknowledge this link. This debarment is particularly pronounced in methodological individualism. It is expressed by the short term rationality of capitalism. If humankind is to survive on Earth, we must replace modern ontology, which focuses on the «being towards death» of the individual, with an ontology that acknowledges the «being towards life» of humankind.