The extraineity of the inside and the intimacy of the outside

Traditionally, philosophical anthropology has argued in favour of the human as a superior animal. Against this ideological presupposition, in this paper we will argue instead for a critique of that said approach. Firstly, we will deconstruct the way man places himself above and at a distance from objects that, for lack of an other, become his. Secondly, we will analyse the way through which man’s gaze separates the living from the non-living, without forgetting the way this translates into political practices, namely those of inclusion and exclusion, as well as denouncing the ‘decisionist’ and theological-political characters of this perspective. In the third section, the posthuman is proposed as a paradigm of the crisis of this fundamental binarism, as the politics of hybrid bodies brings into question this separation. From section four on, we will associate this new politics with the ethics of horror as well as those of the obscene proposed by the cinematography of the new flesh, where the inside-outside dichotomy is further challenged. Lastly, it is through the on camera/off camera dialectic that we will come to identify the binarism in question in relation to the cinematic shot