“Science manipulates things and gives up living in them” (EM, 159). With these words Merleau-Ponty opens his final work, Eye and Mind, a dense and decisive text in which the theoretical trajectory of his late philosophy becomes fully visible. Scientific thought, oriented toward the comprehension and manipulation of reality, neglects the distinctive features of subjectivity and, with them, the very sense of our dwelling in the world. What is the relation between the manipulability of things (the transformations effected by the techno-sciences) and the meaning we ascribe to the world and to our ways of inhabiting it?