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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2026.05.8 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews

Sebastián Lomelí, Prototipos. Procesos de investigación artística sobre tecnología y vida, Libros UNAM, 2025, 200pp., $315.00 (hbk) ISBN 9786073095594.

Reviewed by Sofía Falomir Sánchez, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM

Prototypes: Artistic Research Processes on Technology and Life, as its title suggests, addresses a debate that is both sharply delimited and timely. Its central concerns lie at the intersection of the philosophy of technology, contemporary aesthetics, art involving living media, and artistic research. At a deeper level, however, the book is driven by a broader question: whether art can function, today, as a genuinely critical discourse. Sebastián Lomelí asks to what extent art can do more than simply mobilize technology: he explores how it might also problematize the technological as such, and how, rather than merely operating on living matter,...