Multinaturalism, Ontological Politics
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La violencia y la muerte hacen parte de los contextos contemporáneos. Estos procesos, desde un punto de vista convencional, pueden asumirse como moralmente negativos porque atentan contra la vida. En este sentido, deben ser corregidos a... more
San Cipriano de Antioquía es sin lugar a dudas, uno de los espíritus más cosmopolitas de toda la historia de la magia. Su historia, está llena de pliegues y repliegues de sentido, superposiciones de lugares y personajes, su propia imagen... more
Apocalypsis theme for e-flux jornal 65 the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Biennale 2015, guest-edited by Pedro Neves Marques. Contributors include: Jimmie Durham, Adrian Lahoud, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski, Lesley... more
Suicide is discussed through comtemporary issues concening amerindians in Brazil, especially amazonian rainforest. Predation, xamanism, multinaturalism do contextualize health problems and demands beyond friction model or intruding... more
This piece reflects on two 'ontological turns': the recent anthropological movement and that occasioned earlier in analytic philosophy by the work of W. V. O. Quine. I argue that the commitment entailed by 'ontology' is incompatible with... more
Cannibal Metaphysics, by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, raises incontrovertibly the question of what cultural anthropology is—and what it should be. De Castro places his combative cultural politics at the center of the theory he builds; his... more
A short version of the introduction to the book The Forest and The School/ Where to sit at the dinner table? (2014-15), published by Kadist Foundation. An essay on Antropofagia in Brazil in its relations with Amerindian thought,... more
Reinterpreting what Edward B. Taylor derogatorily defined as fetishism and superstition, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro proposes Animism as an alternative take on the critique of the concept of subject from the “periphery” of Western... more
Introduction to the anthology "The Forest and The School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?", ed. Pedro Neves Marques (Berlin and Cologne; Archive Books and Akademie der Kunste der Welt-Koln, 2014-15).... more
Whale-watching tourism is widely regarded as a manifestation of the transition from whale hunting to whale protection. However, in Jangsaengpo, South Korea, watching whales and eating whale-meat occur side by side for tourism purposes.... more
En el Occidente moderno, la naturaleza es, al menos en términos ideales, todo aquello que, presente en los objetos y seres, precede a la acción humana, es decir, donde no está presente la intención y agencia de una subjetividad. Podríamos... more
This article examines the work of a group of scientists who contributed to influential climate policy approaches while taking part in groundbreaking research on climate transformations. The scientists promoted a policy approach known as... more
Among the Pehuenche, blood is extracted from humans and animals and shared and eaten among people, offered as food to land spirits and deities, as well as devoured by evil spirits and witches. Through an ethnographic analysis of eating... more
In the Tarabuco region of the southern Bolivian Andes, the historical memory of native Quechua-speaking people goes no farther back than what living generations remember. The time of the ancestors belongs to another world and is not of... more
[Draft for Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Routledge Companion, ed. Harvey, Jensen & Morita]
The proposal, in a nutshell, is to think of the cosine as a function that arises when studying "toroidal phenomena" --like the angular momentum-- with theories based on the presumption of a topologically spherical space-time. This... more
El propósito de esta comunicación, enmarcada en la Teoría Crip y el marco antropológico perspectivista y multinaturalista amerindio, es reflexionar acerca de las implicaciones políticas que tiene la práctica de Goalball inclusivo del... more
Opis Predmet ove monografije jeste skup novih pristupa u društvenoj teoriji koji se mogu zbirno označiti nazivima ontološkog obrta, perspektivizma i multinaturalizma. Ontološki obrt, kao poslednji u čitavom nizu „obrta” u teoriji 20. i... more