Antropologia
"These have to do with ontological politics. They have to do with the way in which 'the real' is implicated in the political and vice versa.(...) Ontological Politics is a composite term. It talks of ontology - which in standart philosophical parlance defines what belongs to the real, the conditions of possibility we live with. If the term 'ontology' is combined with that of 'politics' then this suggests that the conditions of possibility are not given. That reality does not precede the mundane practices in which we interact with it, but is rather shaped within this practices. So the term politics works to underline this active mode, this process of shaping, and the fact that its character is both open and contested. To be sure, is has always been assumed that 'reality' is not entirely immutable. Such was the point of technology - and indeed politics. These worked on the assumption that the world might be mastered, changed, controlled. So within the conventions of technology and politics the question of how to shape reality was open: at some point in the future it might be otherwise. But along with this it was assumed that the building blocks of reality were permanent: they could be uncovered by means of sound scientific investigation. Over the last two decades, however, they have been undermined, these neat divisions between present and future; between that which is well-set and that which is still-to-be-formed; between the building blocks that are given and the modes by which they might be differently adjusted.
This work - of which actor network theory did quite a bit but that it by no means did alone - has robbed the elements that make up reality - reality in its ontological dimension - of its alleged stable, given, universal character. It has argued, instead, that reality is historically, culturally and materially located. Located where? The answer depends on the field in which it is given. In social studies of science it was the laboratory that was rediscribed as a sociomaterial practice where reality is transformed and where news ways of doing reality are crafted. From there they are exported, not so much in the form of theory but rather - or at least as much - in the shape of vaccinations, microchips, valves, combustion engines, telephones, genetically manipulated mice and other objects - objects that carry new realities, new ontologies, with them.
Ontologies: note that. Now the word needs to go in the plural. For, and this is a crucial move, if reality is done, if it is historically, culturally and materially located, then ir is also multiple. Realities have become multiple".
- Myth And Science - Lévi-strauss
"A supernatural world thus exist again for humans. Thought physicists' calculations and experiments demonstrate its reality, these experiments take on meaning only when transcribed in mathematical language. In a layperson's eyes (that is, to almost...
- Being-in-the-world - Heidegger
?Our method has already been assigned. The theme of our analytic is to be Being-in-the-world, and accordingly the very world itself; and these are to be considered within the horizon of average everydayness ? the kind of Being which is closest to Dasein....
- T. Ingold - Phenomenology & Science
"From a phenomenological standpoint, by contrast, the world emerges with its properties alongside the emergence of the perceiver in person, against the background of involved activity. Since the person is a being-in-the-world, the coming-in-to-being of...
- Novidades Na Biblioteca Antroposimétrica!
Novos Textos Foram disponibilizados na biblioteca antroposimétrica (acessar no link ao lado): Indigenous Knowledge and western science: the possibility of dialogue - Bala e Joseph Humains et non-humains: un bilan d'etape de la sociologie des collectifs...
- Sobre Fractais (about Fractals)...
?The objects we study, the objects in which we are caught up, the objects we perform, are always more than one and less than many. (?) Which is why it is interesting to work with the metaphor of the fractal. (?) A fractal is a line which occupies more...
Antropologia
Ontological Politics - Annemarie Mol
This work - of which actor network theory did quite a bit but that it by no means did alone - has robbed the elements that make up reality - reality in its ontological dimension - of its alleged stable, given, universal character. It has argued, instead, that reality is historically, culturally and materially located. Located where? The answer depends on the field in which it is given. In social studies of science it was the laboratory that was rediscribed as a sociomaterial practice where reality is transformed and where news ways of doing reality are crafted. From there they are exported, not so much in the form of theory but rather - or at least as much - in the shape of vaccinations, microchips, valves, combustion engines, telephones, genetically manipulated mice and other objects - objects that carry new realities, new ontologies, with them.
Ontologies: note that. Now the word needs to go in the plural. For, and this is a crucial move, if reality is done, if it is historically, culturally and materially located, then ir is also multiple. Realities have become multiple".
Ontological Politics (ANT and After) - Annemarie Mol
loading...
- Myth And Science - Lévi-strauss
"A supernatural world thus exist again for humans. Thought physicists' calculations and experiments demonstrate its reality, these experiments take on meaning only when transcribed in mathematical language. In a layperson's eyes (that is, to almost...
- Being-in-the-world - Heidegger
?Our method has already been assigned. The theme of our analytic is to be Being-in-the-world, and accordingly the very world itself; and these are to be considered within the horizon of average everydayness ? the kind of Being which is closest to Dasein....
- T. Ingold - Phenomenology & Science
"From a phenomenological standpoint, by contrast, the world emerges with its properties alongside the emergence of the perceiver in person, against the background of involved activity. Since the person is a being-in-the-world, the coming-in-to-being of...
- Novidades Na Biblioteca Antroposimétrica!
Novos Textos Foram disponibilizados na biblioteca antroposimétrica (acessar no link ao lado): Indigenous Knowledge and western science: the possibility of dialogue - Bala e Joseph Humains et non-humains: un bilan d'etape de la sociologie des collectifs...
- Sobre Fractais (about Fractals)...
?The objects we study, the objects in which we are caught up, the objects we perform, are always more than one and less than many. (?) Which is why it is interesting to work with the metaphor of the fractal. (?) A fractal is a line which occupies more...