The nineteenth century marked a decisive shift in the perception of distance and space. Schivelbusch summed up this change in The Railway Journey with the motto “abolition of space and distance”, a concept that would later be fully realised with the advent of telemedia. Indeed, the mediation of distance reached an unprecedented speed, it became possible to exchange telegrams from one part of the world to another in a matter of hours. From a theoretical framework, philosophical anthropology addresses the same question. Different approaches of this philosophical movement all converge on a key idea: the process of hominisation involves two fundamental dynamics that intertwine body and technology. The first is a distancing from the world, exemplified by early acts such as lithotecnics and stone throwing. The second is the symbolization and construction of the cultural world to bring it closer. I would like to explore whether the concepts of philosophical anthropology can be directed towards a media anthropology, in which the central figure is the homo medialis and the media appear as the conditio sine qua non of human beings. Can media be thought as the condition of the very ontogenesis of human beings?