El Inconsciente Ontológico de Gilles Deleuze. Por una ontología política frente al psicoanálisis culturalista

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ISBN 13 : 8490855188
Total Pages : 604 pages
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Book Synopsis El Inconsciente Ontológico de Gilles Deleuze. Por una ontología política frente al psicoanálisis culturalista by : Belén Castellanos Rodríguez

Download or read book El Inconsciente Ontológico de Gilles Deleuze. Por una ontología política frente al psicoanálisis culturalista written by Belén Castellanos Rodríguez and published by Dykinson. This book was released on 2015 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro supone el lanzamiento de una investigación de la obra deleuzeana, abordada desde el interés filosófico por el psicoanálisis. Encontramos, pues, un Deleuze receptor, interlocutor y crítico del pensamiento freudiano, un filósofo del Inconsciente y del deseo. Sin embargo, este estudio tiene un carácter principalmente ontológico, no siendo para la política sino un preámbulo que permitiera deshacernos del prejuicio presentista y así, poder pensar las condiciones de posibilidad de una verdadera revolución. Nuestra empresa central consiste en reproponer el Inconsciente como primer principio ontológico puro, es decir, libre de culturalismos y de significaciones simbólicas y previo respecto de cualquiera de los sentidos perecederos con los que los distintos discursos ideológicos cargan el Ser, el Pensar o la Razón. La perversión del platonismo en el seno del psicoanálisis exige liberar al arcké de toda determinación o cualificación que impidiera la coexistencia de los opuestos y la aparición de lo nuevo y de lo diverso sin que el universo perdiera su consistencia y su unidad, recuperando así el hilo de la filosofía presocrática. El Inconsciente de Deleuze supone una reapropiación del logos de Heráclito, como pensamiento sin sujeto que expresa, más que el orden, el desorden de la Naturaleza o su inagotable virtualidad. El Inconsciente, como el ápeiron, no se manifiesta de forma pura, sino que lo “rozamos” en cada operación deconstructiva que nos devuelve al punto cero, a partir del cual podemos inventar nuevos modos de reunir a los opuestos. El Inconsciente nos atraviesa como eterno “discurso” de la Naturaleza, no constreñida por moral alguna. El orden social o el sentido de la vida humana necesita ser reinventado a cada paso y ello solo se hace posible desde un horizonte de experimentación, que Deleuze denomina Inconsciente, y que posibilita la vida en lugar de hipotecarla con estructuras y fines preestablecidos. Criticar el carácter culturalista del inconsciente psicoanalítico es eliminar las derivaciones moralistas de la Idea de Bien platónica, afirmando que no hay ni Edipo ni Falo ni orden moral alguno que no sea producido y, esperamos, rebasable. El Inconsciente deleuzeano posibilita el acontecimiento y la construcción de órdenes políticos no anticipados, y permite escapar al pesimismo instalado por la imagen inmovilista de la sociedad que fija el malestar como principal afecto del individuo inmerso en su comunidad. La apuesta filosófica es fiel a la diferencia ontológica, encargada, en este caso, de desnaturalizar la moral y de desencializar el proyecto político. Para ello, se centra en concebir el deseo como productivo de perspectivas. No es un deseo conservador ni rebelde; no está estructurado por la prohibición ni por el permiso. Este deseo sabe olvidar y empezar: es políticamente constituyente por ser estéticamente creativo. Belén Castellanos Rodríguez (Avilés, 1978) Profesora y Doctora en Filosofía. Premio extraordinario de Doctorado. Trabaja como docente en enseñanza secundaria y esprofesora-tutora de Ética de la UNED. Investiga en varios proyectos de esta misma universidad y de la UCM. Numerosas publicaciones académicas en libros revistas internacionales de Filosofía y de Ciencias Sociales. Interés especial en corrientes filosóficas contemporáneas: Heidegger, post estructuralismo, Bataille, etc que recuperan el pensamiento ontológico de los inicios de la Filosofía. También ha publicado obra literaria. Sus relatos conservan una impronta filosófica emparentada siempre con estas influencias. Así se muestra en su libro con Román Reyes titulado Historias intempestivas y secuencias recurrentes(Ed. Plaza y Valdés, 2012) y en el último en solitario Cuerpos comulgados (Endymión,2014) También es columnista en varias revistas digitales.

Sociedad y deseo a la luz de la relación entre ontología y política en la obra de Gilles Deleuze

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Download or read book Sociedad y deseo a la luz de la relación entre ontología y política en la obra de Gilles Deleuze written by Rodrigo Guillermo Martínez Reinoso and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este trabajo aborda en general sobre la relación dada entre ontología y política a partir de la obra del filósofo contemporáneo Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). Específicamente, se analizan los conceptos de sociedad y deseo, bajo dos perspectivas filosóficas contrapuestas. Por un lado, una concepción negativa y dialéctica de la relación sociedad-deseo, que exige confrontar las filosofías de Platón, Aristóteles y algunos pensadores modernos, entre ellos: Descartes, Kant, Hegel y Freud; ello bajo el punto de vista crítico que se sostiene desde la ontología de la pura diferencia de Deleuze, punto de vista que se dirige contra la concepción moral de la cultura occidental. Por otro lado, se aborda la concepción afirmativa de la relación sociedad-deseo. Destacando la recepción de las obras de Spinoza, Nietzsche, Hume y Bergson, por parte de Deleuze. Recepción que permite restituir el valor y estatuto ontológico de la naturaleza, el cuerpo, la afectividad, las pasiones y el deseo bajo un sentido inmanente. Finalmente, se trata la teoría general de la sociedad y las sociedades que implica la ontología social de Deleuze y Félix Guattari. Y más específicamente, explicamos el concepto de socius o superficie de inscripción, fundado en la teoría de un inconsciente maquínico trascendental, diverso del concepto de inconsciente individual y personológico sustentado por la tradición psicoanalítica. Mostrando a la vez las aplicaciones de este concepto para desarrollar un análisis social y político diferencial que prescinde de la concepción historicista de la cultura occidental. En efecto, se tratan tres modelos de regímenes de signos o formaciones sociales: un régimen de signos pre-significante, que atañe al socius primitivo o sociedades del marcaje; un régimen de signos significante que atañe al socius bárbaro despótico o sistema de esclavitud maquínico general; y, por último, un régimen de signos post-significante, pasional-autoritario, inherente al socius capitalista o sociedades modernas, régimen que implica el concepto de servidumbre voluntaria. En el epílogo conclusivo de nuestro trabajo sintetizamos todo nuestro trayecto, a la vez que lo matizamos a partir de la interpretación de Deleuze del pensamiento de David Hume. Siendo esta la forma de destacar la concepción afirmativa de la sociedad de Deleuze fundada en el proyecto de Hume de sustituir una psicología del espíritu por una psicología de las afecciones del espíritu. Teniendo como elementos capitales las afecciones de lo pasional y lo social.

Gilles Deleuze: hacia una filosofia de la individuación

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Publisher : Editorial Universidad del Rosario
ISBN 13 : 9587840674
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Gilles Deleuze: hacia una filosofia de la individuación written by Simón, Díez Montoya and published by Editorial Universidad del Rosario. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En la literatura existente sobre la obra filosófica de Deleuze hay un vacío en lo que concierne a la relación entre sus dos tesis doctorales: Spinoza y el problema de la expresión y Diferencia y repetición. Este trabajo le apuesta a una lectura en paralelo de ambas obras, no solo para develar sus arquitecturas conceptuales, sino también para presentar conexiones novedosas entre los textos: la ontología deleuziana puede ser reconstruida a partir de su interés por los modos finitos de Spinoza y su actualización contemporánea del problema de la individuación.

Gilles Deleuze

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ISBN 13 : 9788433845467
Total Pages : 556 pages
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Book Synopsis Gilles Deleuze by : Gustavo Galván Rodríguez

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Lacan, Deleuze y Lalangue

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Publisher : Independently Published
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Total Pages : 156 pages
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Book Synopsis Lacan, Deleuze y Lalangue by : Elena Bisso

Download or read book Lacan, Deleuze y Lalangue written by Elena Bisso and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro hunde sus raíces en las ondas expansivas del Mayo francés. Se trata del desciframiento de un acertijo en la intersección del psicoanálisis y la filosofía. La fascinación de Deleuze por Lacan declinaba y Foucault auguraba quién sería el filósofo del siglo XX. Lacan elaboraba la versión más refinada de su lógica del significante, y estaba a punto de producir los discursos, sus "pequeños cuadrípodos giratorios". El 12 de marzo de 1969 Lacan pidió al auditorio de su Seminario que alguien entrara en el detalle de un pie de página de Lógica del sentido de Deleuze. Cuarenta y un años después la autora aceptó el desafío al no encontrar ninguna respuesta de aquella época. La objeción a una tesis de Lacan que se analiza en este texto fue la misma por la que Guattari decidió conocer a Deleuze. Esta investigación es un eslabón más para la ontogenia de Antiedipo, situando en un lugar de privilegio la ontología del Deleuze académico, la Univocidad del Ser. Elena Bisso es Doctora en Psicología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Psicoanalista, Profesora en Media y Superior en Psicología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Autora de los libros: "¿Quién diagnostica en psicoanálisis? Figuraciones en tres campos teóricos" y "¿Qué es el sentido? Exploraciones psicoanalíticas" de Grama Ediciones. Y de artículos con referato tales como "El Dasein en la enseñanza de Jacques Lacan", "Lacan con Deleuze: lógicas del sentido" y "Una óntica spinozista de Lacan", entre otros. EDITORIAL PROMETEO ARGENTINA. Este libro contiene el desarrollo de los siguientes temas: *** Introducción La recepción lacaniana de Lógica del sentido.................19 La lógica del sentido de Lacan...........................................31 El concepto de sentido en Deleuze....................................43 La objeción de Deleuze a "una tesis de Lacan"...............77 Hacia la lalangue.....................................................................97 1970. Sentido y escritura............................................................98 1971. El objeto a nace de un nudo de sentido.........................106 1972. El sentido sustituye a lo sexual que falta........................113 1973. El sentido como intersección.........................................125 1975. El Otro de lo Real...........................................................130 Conclusiones...........................................................................137 Bibliografía..............................................................................143 Con este libro usted podrá conocer a fondo un eslabón más para la ontogenia de Antiedipo, situando en un lugar de privilegio la ontología del Deleuze académico, la Univocidad del Ser. ¡Compre ya este libro y comience a conocer en profundidad un eslabón más para la ontogenia de Antiedipo, situando en un lugar de privilegio la ontología del Deleuze académico, la Univocidad del Ser! Tags: psicoanálisis, filosofía, psicología, Mayo Francés, Lógica del Sentido, Lacan, Deleuze.

Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520934368
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by : David Sedley

Download or read book Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity written by David Sedley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.

Passion of the Western Mind

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307804526
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Book Synopsis Passion of the Western Mind by : Richard Tarnas

Download or read book Passion of the Western Mind written by Richard Tarnas and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.

Paradises

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ISBN 13 : 9781908276247
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Surface Encounters

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452932956
Total Pages : 201 pages
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Book Synopsis Surface Encounters by : Ron Broglio

Download or read book Surface Encounters written by Ron Broglio and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art

Existential Semiotics

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028531
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Book Synopsis Existential Semiotics by : Eero Tarasti

Download or read book Existential Semiotics written by Eero Tarasti and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

Biopoetics

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Total Pages : 526 pages
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Download or read book Biopoetics written by Brett Cooke and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the City

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477309411
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Book Synopsis Beyond the City by : Felipe Correa

Download or read book Beyond the City written by Felipe Correa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.

Bamako Sounds

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452944415
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book Bamako Sounds written by Ryan Thomas Skinner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression, religious identity, and intellectual property. Drawing on years of ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora (a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more contemporary, hip-hop influenced musicians and producers, Ryan Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations. Whether performed live on stage, broadcast on the radio, or shared over the Internet, music is a privileged mode of expression that suffuses Bamako’s urban soundscape. It animates professional projects, communicates cultural values, pronounces public piety, resounds in the marketplace, and quite literally performs the nation. Music, the artists who make it, and the audiences who interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital Afropolitanism, in Bamako and beyond.

Unfolding the Semiotic Web in Urban Discourse

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Publisher : Philologica Wratislaviensia: From Grammar to Discourse
ISBN 13 : 9783631616260
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Unfolding the Semiotic Web in Urban Discourse written by Zdzisław Wąsik and published by Philologica Wratislaviensia: From Grammar to Discourse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective collectivities when they create and interpret similar meanings embodied in material bearers. Accordingly, the unfolding of the semiotic web is understood, firstly, as detecting and evaluating the growth and manifestation of the sphere of meaning-bearers or a sequence of meaning-bearing events, and secondly, as identifying and explaining the constituents and aspects of discourse in the light of signs and/or sign-processes that aggregate individual participants of communication into discursive linkages on a lower level and discursive communities - on a higher level of social grouping. Some contributions deal with the discursive properties of human individuals in urban environments, and some others are devoted either to the meta-discourses on the city or discourses in the city.

Artist Animal

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452934843
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Artist Animal written by Steve Baker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but rather as beings who actively share the world with humanity. The concerns of the artists presented in this book—Sue Coe, Eduardo Kac, Lucy Kimbell, Catherine Chalmers, Olly and Suzi, Angela Singer, Catherine Bell, and others—range widely, from the ecological to the philosophical and from those engaging with the modification of animal bodies to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights. Drawing on extensive interviews he conducted with the artists under consideration, Baker explores the vital contribution that contemporary art can make to a broader conception of animal life, emphasizing the importance of creativity and trust in both the making and understanding of these artworks. Throughout, Baker is attentive to issues of practice, form, and medium. He asks, for example, whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working, and he highlights the tensions between creative practice and certain kinds of ethical demands or expectations. Featuring full-color, vivid examples of their work, Artist Animal situates contemporary artists within the wider project of thinking beyond the human, asserting art’s power to open up new ways of thinking about animals.

Beasts of the Modern Imagination

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421431335
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Beasts of the Modern Imagination written by Margot Norris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"—writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animal—not like the animal, in imitation of the animal—but with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose shattering conclusions inevitably turned back on him and subordinated him, the rational man, to the very Nature he studied. Friedrich Nietzsche heeded the advice implicit in his criticism of David Strauss and used Darwinian ideas as critical tools to interrogate the status of man as a natural being. He also responded to the implications of his own animality for his writing by transforming his work into bestial acts and gestures. The third, and last, generation of these creative animals includes Franz Kafka, the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and D. H. Lawrence. In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification.

Territories of Difference

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389436
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Territories of Difference written by Arturo Escobar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar’s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories.