This article examines how the so-called disembodied criminal subject is given structure and form through the law of homicide and assault. By analysing how the body is materialised through the criminal law’s enactment of death and injury, this article suggests that the biological positioning of these harms of violence as uncontroversial, natural, and universal conditions of being ‘human’ cannot fully appreciate what makes violence wrongful for us, as embodied entities. Absent a theory of the body, and a consideration of corporeality, the criminal law risks marginalising, or altogether eliding, experiences of violence that do not align with its paradigmatic vision of what bodies can and must do when suffering its effects. Here I consider how the bionic body disrupts the criminal law’s understanding of human violence by being a body that is both organic and inorganic, and capable of experiencing and performing violence in unexpected ways. I propose that a criminal law that is more receptive to the changing, technologically mediated conditions of human existence would be one that takes the corporeal dimensions of violence more seriously and, as an extension of this, adopts an embodied, embedded, and relational understanding of human vulnerability to violence.

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仿生体、后人类暴力和无身体的犯罪主体

本文探讨了如何通过杀人和殴打法赋予所谓的无形犯罪主体结构和形式。通过分析身体是如何通过刑法对死亡和伤害的制定而具体化的，本文表明，将这些暴力伤害的生物学定位为作为“人类”的无可争议的、自然的和普遍的条件，并不能完全理解是什么使暴力成为不法行为。我们，作为具体化的实体。没有关于身体的理论，也没有对肉体的考虑，刑法有可能边缘化或完全消除暴力体验，这些体验与其关于身体在遭受其影响时可以和必须做什么的范式愿景不一致。在这里，我考虑仿生身体如何破坏刑法对人类暴力的理解，因为它是一个有机和无机的身体，能够以意想不到的方式体验和执行暴力。我建议，一部更能接受不断变化的、以技术为中介的人类生存条件的刑法，将更认真地对待暴力的肉体维度，并作为其延伸，采用对暴力的具体化、嵌入性和相关性理解。人类对暴力的脆弱性。