Dominio y sometimiento

How has the transition occurred from the slave described in the Code of Hammurabi, who, in addition to being marked by fire, had to wear his name and that of his master around his neck, to the citizen of a contemporary democratic state? Remo Bodei explores this profoundly asymmetric power relationship along which dominance continues to be exercised, albeit in an indirect and impersonal way. Beginning with the appearance of slavery and its Aristotelian conception, going through the debates on the "natural servitude of the Indians", in which the original formulation of the theory of human rights emerged, and the development of the mechanics and the appearance of "wage slavery" in the first industrial revolution, to the introduction of human thought in machines and the cohabitation of artificial intelligence with human intelligence, this exciting essay follows the thread of that constant servant-master that, with numerous transformations, has driven the history of mankind.