Perspectivism
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Cet ouvrage invite à une lecture critique de la philosophie de Gilles Deleuze en reconstituant le système perspectiviste qui le sous-tend. La thèse qui est défendue est qu'on ne peut comprendre le « perspectivisme » deleuzien qu'au regard... more
For over half a century, throughout attempts to unify the standard model with general relativity, scientists have confronted the "problem of inconsistent models," which occurs when scientific models, regarded as perspectives on physical... more
Radom se usmjerava pažnja na ulogu i važnost pluriperspektivizma u misli G. W. F. Hegela. U tu se svrhu iščitava alegorija o istinitom kao bakantskom zanosu, a koja se nalazi u njegovom temeljnom djelu Fenomenologija duha. Također, u... more
This article proposes the phytogram, an image made by using the internal chemistry of plants in conjunction with photographic emulsion. First, a theoretical framework is set out, drawing inspiration from structural/materialist film... more
Here, I follow one of the more exciting and under-explored consequences of grounding media as metaphor - the (not so) sudden compatibility of media ecology with the claim that fictional objects are real. This paper explores what... more
Against rationalist assumptions on human nature, Gulliver’s Travels... offers a trip through human passions to reveal how far are humans from being rational creatures as it has been philosophically assumed. The set of passions embodied by... more
Статья посвящена одержимости и жертвоприношениям в афрогенных традициях, главным образом в пало монте и сантерии. В ней также уделено внимание обрядам и феноменологии вуду и креольского спиритизма. Жертвоприношения и практики одержимости... more
As this book is now out of print, I have included the full text here, in the series of 32 pdf files. Only the file for Chapter VII actually shows, when "view" this book by clicking on the title. However, if you click on the words "31... more
essay-poem / performative text presented as part of the conference #FOMO at ICA in London, may 31st, 2015 (with accompanying audiovisual media)....sci-fi reflections on club cosmologies, mutations, trans-formation, speciation, ontological... more
Natural Theology has traditionally been defined as that part of philosophy which explores that which man can know about God (his existence, divine nature, etc.) from nature, via his divinely bestowed faculty of reason; and, this, unaided... more
This paper assesses whether the thing-in-itself as illustrated by Immanuel Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason is refuted by Nietzsche’s critique of it. I hope to do this by first reconstructing the case for the thing-in-itself as put... more
English Summary: This remarkable book is the fruit of 30 years of investigations of two archaeologists, husband and wife, Maria Magdalena and Andrzej Antczak, on the pre-Hispanic archaeology of the majestic Los Roques Archipelago,... more
Ausstellungskatalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung für die Kunstbibliothek im Museum für Fotografie Berlin Exhibition catalogue to the exhibition curated for for the Kunstbibliothek at the Museum für Fotografie Berlin Überwachung ist... more
Longchenpa’s Precious Treasury of the Genuine Meaning (henceforth PTGM) will dodge and overspill any attempt to classify it in simple disciplinarian molds. Surely, it is possible to deem it a “religious” book, but that will not make any... more
La tradition philosophique attribue à Nietzsche un rôle fondateur dans l'histoire des pensées perspectivistes. Il semblerait en effet que Nietzsche soit l'inventeur du mot "perspectivisme" : dans cet article, je commence donc par... more
Slides da aula apresentada para a turma de Semiótica da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS.
O livro apresenta uma reflexão sobre o perspectivismo nietzschiano e sua relação com o projeto de uma transvaloração dos valores, ao qual estaria subordinado. Daí falarmos num “primado da prática” sobre a teoria a partir de um paralelo... more
This thesis mainly focuses on the description and analysis of the Moça Nova Festival, the initiation ritual through which Ticuna young women go through. The Ticuna people speak an isolated language and inhabit, for the most part, the... more
Texte présenté au Colloque Francis Ponge à Cerisy (2015) Sous une autre perspective que celle de la littérature française – celle du Brésil –, que devient Francis Ponge, lorsqu’il est traduit ? Est-ce que la traduction le transforme en... more
L’analisi dei principali temi della filosofia di Nietzsche conduce all’individuazione della nozione di forza come elemento centrale delle sue riflessioni. Egli la incorpora ed utilizza filosoficamente, in periodi diversi, per la... more
This article explores the four sources of (scientific) knowledge: perception, inference, reference and comparison. In Western literature on the nature, criterion, scope and kinds of knowledge the importance of comparing, said to be the... more
This thesis intends an opening move in the field of legal theory as well as in that of law and technology studies, and especially in the intersection of the two. It tries to construct a theory of law and of its relation to technology that... more
Análisis literario de la obra novelística Belarmino y Apolonio del autor Peréz de Ayala en la que habla del perspectivismo en diferentes campos de la vida.
In this talk, I would like to propose a theoretical experiment of a very tentative and preliminary character. This experiment consists in mobilizing the conceptual apparatus of Amerindian perspectivism, especially as reconstructed in... more
This book focuses on a number of questions that occupied Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and reveals in what way the two philosophers, who are quite different in temperament do actually share much in common.
New media studies has often focused on the difference between traditional and new media objects while neglecting the perspectival difference in worldview and subjectivity concomitant with the becoming-ubiquitous of the digital. In this... more
By means of an in-depth exegesis of the works of Alasdair MacIntyre and Friedrich Nietzsche, my dissertation argues that the fundamental pathology afflicting Modernity in the West is not a crisis of values—whether valuelessness or... more
Neste ensaio, fruto da experiência docente na periferia colonial do capitalismo racializado brasileiro retomo, muito brevemente, a conexão encontrada na filosofia ocidental entre ontologia e linguagem para dar explicitude aos fundamentos... more
This essay is about "knowing limits," both in the sense of acknowledging the inevitable perspectival limits of our knowledge, and in the sense in which the act of knowing delimits the parameters of that which is known. Moreover, it aims... more
(Published version) Zhuangzi and Nietzsche have both been said to advocate some kind of perspectivism, as well as being against anthropocentrism. A comparison of the two thinkers raises some interesting questions, the answers to which... more
Philosophy has long closely associated perspectivity and perspectivism with Nietzsche and often identified them with relativism. Recent research, however, shows that this reduced picture needs to be corrected. Perspectivity can be... more
This work studies the concepts of the body in East and South Asian bodily religious practices and the role of human body in religion. This study focusses on the Chinese and Indian bodily practices, more specifically on Hatha Yoga and... more
El americanismo del trópico ha demostrado ser una de las áreas más dinámicas y creativas de la antropología contemporánea, ejerciendo una creciente influencia en la agenda conceptual más amplia. Sin embargo, a pesar de este florecimiento... more
Este artículo traza un recorrido por los sentidos que asumió el perspectivismo en la obra del antropólogo Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, uno de sus principales referentes desde 1990. Primero, abordaremos las nociones de persona, humano y... more
The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes. Tamara Bray, ed. University Press of Colorado. 2015. http://www.upcolorado.com/book/3174
> Context • Society is faced with “wicked” problems of environmental sustainability, which are inherently multiperspectival, and there is a need for explicitly constructivist and perspectivist theories to address them. > Problem •... more
This chapter approaches Zen, in part, from the perspective of Western discourses on perspectivism. It begins by examining the ambivalently egocentric character of Nietzsche’s perspectivism, and later contrasts the egocentric... more
Friedrich Nietzsche has long been recognized as a pivotal thinker in the history of moral philosophy, but until the last quarter century his importance for our understanding of the concepts of truth and knowledge had been largely ignored... more
L’anthropologie est une recherche moderne. Etymologiquement « savoir sur l'humain », elle est en effet le nom d'une discipline académique née à la fin du XVIIIe, mais aussi de tout l’horizon de connaissance qui lui donne son sens,... more