Abstract

The article outlines some consequences and tasks that open up from a critique of the metaphysics of substance made from Nietzsche onwards. An attempt is made to put in tension the modern figure of man and the contemporary forms of subjectivation. The article is an invitation to abandon the waiting, longing and postponement of another human being to come. Using an ethical proposal that places the body and life at the center, it raises the question of what can be the new ways of inhabiting our time and experiencing the forces in dispute that constitute us without leaving this task for the future. Finally, it is proposed that these new ways of being in the world cannot aspire to be definitive if they seek to expand life, nor will they be produced from large-scale cultivation.