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Hence the panic which can seize people displaced outside their
linguistic boundaries; who have to face the other unclothed by language,
existentially exposed to a rudimentary confrontation with alterity. ‘‘It is the
most naked,’’ says Levinas, speaking of the face, ‘‘though with a decent
nudity’’ (86).

For it is emphatically not a case of technology rampaging out of control, crushing human nature in its machinic path, but rather a situation wherein the human is constantly recreating itself, from the very beginning, as a technical animal.