Cartesian Dualism, Rick and Morty and Bodily Empowerement : A surprising encounter

Cartesian Dualism, Rick and Morty and Bodily Empowerement : A surprising encounter

Rick and Morty mirrors in many ways our current situation within contemporary society : Cartesian Dualism and his Cogito have had a lasting effect on the way Western society organises the topography of mind and body. The fact that humans have a body, rather than are a body is a concept that is with us up to this day, in the chirurgical advancements of the 20th and 21st century, which have fragmented the ‘unified’ body into an assemblage of parts – synthetic skin, tissues, organs – replaceable ‘at will’, as well as with modern biology which turns the body into a ‘machine’ in which specific parts play determined roles in given bodily processes.