From the above we can deduce that the first sedentary settlements—the first domus in the etimological sense of the term—are the concretion of a domination dynamic that took place through the domestication of a variety of animal and vegetable species that were adapted to the new human habitat. The borders of these settlements, which were in principle permeable, became increasingly rigid as a measure of protection against the unheimlich, that is, against alterity (0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 0.24), whether embodied in wild animals or unknown human groups. Technique (techne) applied to the construction of these structures, would eventually become an essential element of sovereignty and group identity. Thus, according to Stephen L. Talbott, technology assists in the birth of the human ego by separating it from the natural world, but “this separation, this loss of paradise, reconstitutes the world as an alien, threatening place, continually encroaching upon the safe habitations fortified by human techne .”¹ It is in the erecting of these first paradeisos, in the etymological sense of places surrounded by a palisade (0.3), where we find the primeval topos of human domination and its activity par excellence, hunting.

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1. Talbott, In the Belly of the Beast, 10-11. ↩︎