Jarrad Reddekop
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política, Associate researcher
In my work, I am especially interested in thinking through ways in which cross-cultural thinking can offer provocations to the usual habits of Western philosophy and critical theory. In particular, I am interested in how conversations with Indigenous American traditions of thought can open up valuable philosophical and political viewpoints/imaginaries as we seek to grapple with the intersecting cultural, political, and environmental crises of our day. Much of my thinking in this regard tends to revolve around the possibility and consequences of thinking with/through alternate ontologies – most especially, relational ones.
I am especially interested in working these questions through in ways that make clear their relevance for the negotiation of everyday life, for our experiences of place and selfhood, and for how we engage problems of law, ethics, politics, colonialism, and environmentalism.
Supervisors: Regna Darnell
Address: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
I am especially interested in working these questions through in ways that make clear their relevance for the negotiation of everyday life, for our experiences of place and selfhood, and for how we engage problems of law, ethics, politics, colonialism, and environmentalism.
Supervisors: Regna Darnell
Address: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Resumen: Las bases ontológicas de la diferencia, uno de los principales temas que se abordan en el estudio de las relaciones internacionales, no han sido cuestionadas lo suficiente. En este foro, exploramos cómo las pre-suposiciones existenciales arraigadas a la lógica relacional proveen un con-junto de herramientas completamente distinto que nos permite percibir, interpretar y relacionar la similitud y la diferencia de otra forma. Tomando como referencia las cosmovivencias encontradas en los Andes, Asia del Sur, Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, en las seis colaboraciones se analiza cómo las hipótesis existenciales influyen en la forma en la que estudiamos la diferencia como teóricos, investigadores y docentes. En esta primera Trownsell, Tamara A. et al. (2021) Forum: Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World. International Studies Perspectives,
Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, the six contributions explore how our existential assumptions affect the ways in which we deal with difference as theorists, researchers, and teachers. This initial conversation pinpoints key content and foci of future relational work in IR.
Resumen: Las bases ontológicas de la diferencia, uno de los principales temas que se abordan en el estudio de las relaciones internacionales, no han sido cuestionadas lo suficiente. En este foro, exploramos cómo las presuposiciones existenciales arraigadas a la lógica relacional proveen un conjunto de herramientas completamente distinto que nos permite percibir, interpretar y relacionar la similitud y la diferencia de otra forma. Tomando como referencia las cosmovivencias encontradas en los Andes, Asia del Sur, Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, en las seis colaboraciones se analiza cómo las hipótesis existenciales influyen en la forma en la que estudiamos la diferencia como teóricos, investigadores y docentes. En esta primera
conversación, se señala el contenido fundamental y el centro de atención del futuro trabajo relacional en el ámbito de las RR. II.
Extrait: Les bases ontologiques de la différence, l'une des principales préoccupations de l’étude des relations internationales, n'avaient jusqu'ici pas été décomposées de manière adéquate. Cette tribune presse explore la façon dont les suppositions existentielles ancrées dans les logiques relationnelles offrent un ensemble d'outils considérablement distincts et nous incitent à réorienter la manière dont nous percevons, interprétons et approchons à la fois la similarité et la différence. Les six essais examinent la façon dont nos paris existentiels affectent les manières dont nous traitons la différence en tant que théoriciens, chercheurs et enseignants en s'appuyant sur des points de repère issus d'engagements cosmologiques intervenant dans les Andes, en Asie du Sud, en Asie de l'Est et dans le Moyen-Orient. Ce premier échange a permis d'identifier les principaux contenus et axes du futur travail relationnel dans les relations internationales.
As part of my exploration of this question, I bring Indigenous thought into conversation with two thinkers from the Western tradition who arrive, from their own directions, at somewhat analogously relational perspectives – namely, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. I argue that the critical arsenal these thinkers offer Western theory gives valuable insights concerning the potential that relational thinking might have as a counterdiscourse vis à vis our dominant culture – but that Indigenous thought pushes us much farther still in this direction. Accordingly, I try to explore how lessons from Indigenous thought might lead us to rethink or recuperate on different terms certain elements of Nietzsche and Heidegger’s critiques. Rethinking counterdiscursive possibilities in this way, this study seeks to contribute towards a critical theorizing that is more consciously responsive to the intertwined legacies of colonialism, modern thought, and our present ecological crises; to connected political contours, tensions, and possibilities within our present; and also better attuned to possible points of productive consonance, conversation, and allegiance therein.
This volume’s purpose is to examine new perspectives on worlding in light of what looks like a shift recently registered in the politics of theory, one which has led from the exploration of the possible into the subsequent investigation of the compossible, i.e. from the counter-capitalist drive towards deterritorialisation (whose flag capitalism hoists today to an unprecedented degree) into the post-capitalist reinvention of new existential territories (partly virtual, partly already real) at the interface of modern frustrations and the logics of the otherwise, thus encouraging (against despotic encodings and active nihilisms alike) a re-stitching of liberation (Dionysus) and dwelling (Apollo) on behalf of what might be labelled a cosmopolitics and a poetics of care.
It includes papers on questions of order, chaos, immanence, transcendence, singularity, and variation; post-foundational and meta-foundational axiomatics around notions like Grund, Abgrund, and multi-centricity; cosmopolitical pragmatics of alliance; the poetics of dwelling against the politics of devastation; the metaphysics of the others; the narratives of new complex existential niches; and extra-modern ontologies and cosmologies. Ultimately, then, it is dedicated to exploring the contours of the Otherwise on behalf of a non-minimalist philosophical paradigm: that of Worlding.
Tim Ingold speaks of drawing “lines” and making “knots,” Donna Haraway of “string figuring.” These and other similar expressions hint beyond today’s object-oriented fever and dystopian dismay. Yet by putting together this volume we want to move forward on their track in new, unhackneyed ways; for not only do we wish to picture specific modalities of be(com)ing with and their logics: we aim, too, at studying their conceptual backstage, memories, and margins.
The volume, on the other hand, divides into three sections: “Integrals” contains reflections out of which specific notional areas and volumes, but also problems, arise. “Derivatives,” in contrast, brings together drifts into the otherwise that make audible, and readable, some of the otherwise’s multiform voices. “Constellations,” finally, shakes the dust that forms the soil of what deserves to be thought, sensed, and experimented with.
Our gratitude to all those who have generously contributed a piece to the volume’s music.
Sofya Gevorkyan
Carlos A. Segovia
Resumen: Las bases ontológicas de la diferencia, uno de los principales temas que se abordan en el estudio de las relaciones internacionales, no han sido cuestionadas lo suficiente. En este foro, exploramos cómo las pre-suposiciones existenciales arraigadas a la lógica relacional proveen un con-junto de herramientas completamente distinto que nos permite percibir, interpretar y relacionar la similitud y la diferencia de otra forma. Tomando como referencia las cosmovivencias encontradas en los Andes, Asia del Sur, Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, en las seis colaboraciones se analiza cómo las hipótesis existenciales influyen en la forma en la que estudiamos la diferencia como teóricos, investigadores y docentes. En esta primera Trownsell, Tamara A. et al. (2021) Forum: Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World. International Studies Perspectives,
Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, the six contributions explore how our existential assumptions affect the ways in which we deal with difference as theorists, researchers, and teachers. This initial conversation pinpoints key content and foci of future relational work in IR.
Resumen: Las bases ontológicas de la diferencia, uno de los principales temas que se abordan en el estudio de las relaciones internacionales, no han sido cuestionadas lo suficiente. En este foro, exploramos cómo las presuposiciones existenciales arraigadas a la lógica relacional proveen un conjunto de herramientas completamente distinto que nos permite percibir, interpretar y relacionar la similitud y la diferencia de otra forma. Tomando como referencia las cosmovivencias encontradas en los Andes, Asia del Sur, Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio, en las seis colaboraciones se analiza cómo las hipótesis existenciales influyen en la forma en la que estudiamos la diferencia como teóricos, investigadores y docentes. En esta primera
conversación, se señala el contenido fundamental y el centro de atención del futuro trabajo relacional en el ámbito de las RR. II.
Extrait: Les bases ontologiques de la différence, l'une des principales préoccupations de l’étude des relations internationales, n'avaient jusqu'ici pas été décomposées de manière adéquate. Cette tribune presse explore la façon dont les suppositions existentielles ancrées dans les logiques relationnelles offrent un ensemble d'outils considérablement distincts et nous incitent à réorienter la manière dont nous percevons, interprétons et approchons à la fois la similarité et la différence. Les six essais examinent la façon dont nos paris existentiels affectent les manières dont nous traitons la différence en tant que théoriciens, chercheurs et enseignants en s'appuyant sur des points de repère issus d'engagements cosmologiques intervenant dans les Andes, en Asie du Sud, en Asie de l'Est et dans le Moyen-Orient. Ce premier échange a permis d'identifier les principaux contenus et axes du futur travail relationnel dans les relations internationales.
As part of my exploration of this question, I bring Indigenous thought into conversation with two thinkers from the Western tradition who arrive, from their own directions, at somewhat analogously relational perspectives – namely, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. I argue that the critical arsenal these thinkers offer Western theory gives valuable insights concerning the potential that relational thinking might have as a counterdiscourse vis à vis our dominant culture – but that Indigenous thought pushes us much farther still in this direction. Accordingly, I try to explore how lessons from Indigenous thought might lead us to rethink or recuperate on different terms certain elements of Nietzsche and Heidegger’s critiques. Rethinking counterdiscursive possibilities in this way, this study seeks to contribute towards a critical theorizing that is more consciously responsive to the intertwined legacies of colonialism, modern thought, and our present ecological crises; to connected political contours, tensions, and possibilities within our present; and also better attuned to possible points of productive consonance, conversation, and allegiance therein.
This volume’s purpose is to examine new perspectives on worlding in light of what looks like a shift recently registered in the politics of theory, one which has led from the exploration of the possible into the subsequent investigation of the compossible, i.e. from the counter-capitalist drive towards deterritorialisation (whose flag capitalism hoists today to an unprecedented degree) into the post-capitalist reinvention of new existential territories (partly virtual, partly already real) at the interface of modern frustrations and the logics of the otherwise, thus encouraging (against despotic encodings and active nihilisms alike) a re-stitching of liberation (Dionysus) and dwelling (Apollo) on behalf of what might be labelled a cosmopolitics and a poetics of care.
It includes papers on questions of order, chaos, immanence, transcendence, singularity, and variation; post-foundational and meta-foundational axiomatics around notions like Grund, Abgrund, and multi-centricity; cosmopolitical pragmatics of alliance; the poetics of dwelling against the politics of devastation; the metaphysics of the others; the narratives of new complex existential niches; and extra-modern ontologies and cosmologies. Ultimately, then, it is dedicated to exploring the contours of the Otherwise on behalf of a non-minimalist philosophical paradigm: that of Worlding.
Tim Ingold speaks of drawing “lines” and making “knots,” Donna Haraway of “string figuring.” These and other similar expressions hint beyond today’s object-oriented fever and dystopian dismay. Yet by putting together this volume we want to move forward on their track in new, unhackneyed ways; for not only do we wish to picture specific modalities of be(com)ing with and their logics: we aim, too, at studying their conceptual backstage, memories, and margins.
The volume, on the other hand, divides into three sections: “Integrals” contains reflections out of which specific notional areas and volumes, but also problems, arise. “Derivatives,” in contrast, brings together drifts into the otherwise that make audible, and readable, some of the otherwise’s multiform voices. “Constellations,” finally, shakes the dust that forms the soil of what deserves to be thought, sensed, and experimented with.
Our gratitude to all those who have generously contributed a piece to the volume’s music.
Sofya Gevorkyan
Carlos A. Segovia