The Evolution of the Body in the Digital Age: Posthumanism in Tool’s Music Videos

Abstract

The paper analyzes corporeality in the audiovisual work of the band Tool, focusing on posthumanist and transcendental motives. Music videos for songs such as Stinkfist, Schism, and Parabola depict the disintegration of the human body, symbolizing the desire to transcend biological limits. Blending surrealism with body horror, they provoke reflection on the condition of the body in a technological world. Based on the theories of N. Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben, this study explores the role of audiovisual art as a medium for reflecting on the contemporary human condition in the face of technological transformation.