Over tens of thousands of years, our bodies have not undergone any biological changes. Homo sapiens weaved a history of symbolic processes, cultures, representations, always inhabiting the same body that marked the boundary between the inside and the outside. In the posthuman era, however, the body seems to have dematerialized, disseminated. It is the Kafkaesque insect, Dick's android, Ballard and Haraway's cyborg. Yet it continues to be the arm moving the artist's brush, the eye looking at the white paper, the hand typing letters on the keyboard. The body is still revolutionary.

With the entry of the Metaverse and NFT fashion on the scene, today Antonio Caronia's The Virtual Body becomes a prophetic reading. But it is also a guide to looking at the present through the lens of a future past, a glimpse into the imaginary, between what we have been and what we could become, as a society and as bodies.