Everything that was ever sold and created in human history is now interpreted in terms of physical wellbeing. That is fascinating because it is a true metaphysics of our time. It is a metaphysic in a sense that our own body is a meta-object to us. I am not talking about this metaverse. The metaverse is not a meta-object. Because we can look at it, it’s part of our experience. But our body is not a part of our experience. We cannot take our body a part of our experience. We are living in a new religion and a new metaphysics of wellbeing, physical wellbeing, this is something that we have to trust, but we cannot control it and we cannot experience it with any kind of evidence. This fascinates me because I am fascinated by every kind metaphysics.

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I have always had this ambivalent feeling in relationship to the new metaphysic and to this new system. This metaphysic goes much further than Foucault describes it, because Foucault still describes it in managerial terms. But what is interesting for me is not how to organize biopower, but how I live in the biopower. As a patient and a as citizen, I’m not interested in church, but I’m interested in what it means to be a believer. I’m not interested in science, but I’m interested in what it means to be a scientist. What does it mean to be a patient? Because the basic ontological metaphysical mode of our existence in our society is to exist as a patient. We are not a believer, not creator, we are patients.