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Abstract: This article is as much about repetition as it is about relations, ruptures, and rituals. It is above all an attempt to think these three topics in light of repetition.1 The universe of our experience, including nature as revealed in our encounters with especially elemental forces and living beings, is one in which indefinitely replicable relationships, susceptible to random variation and fatal frustration, abound. In the biosphere, species become extinct (that is, they fail to replicate) no less than randomly ramify. Such ramification results in novel forms of biological life. The world of our practices is, in turn, one in which replicable forms possessing inherent significance also abound. Cultures arise, evolve ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1991, Richard Rorty wrote, "We, Western liberal intellectuals, should accept the fact that we have to start from where we are and that this means that there are lots of view which we simply cannot take seriously."1 Such a statement worries anthropologists like Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, who think that we need to consider how calling them "views" already precludes—and justifies—the possibility of taking them seriously.2 Rorty is right about the impossibility of believing everything anyone else believes, but he is wrong in thinking that believing is the same as taking seriously. The task for contemporary anthropologists like Viveiros de Castro is to build a concept of taking seriously not confused with belief, so ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Doctors who work on the body think it can't benefit from any food that's offered to it until what's interfering with it from the inside is removed.""Simon: Or perhaps you fancy that any outsider who will take the trouble can tell a good dinner from a bad one. Well, the mighty Plato says, if the guest is not versed in cookery, the dressing of the banquet will be but unworthily judged.""One is thus never sure that the ideal fluids of an organism without parts does not carry parasitic worms, fragments of organs, solid food, and excremental residue."Conjuring up itchy imagery and spoiling appetite, parasites are a dreaded nuisance. With the symptoms of a parasitic infection ranging from fever and fatigue to nausea and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Why is cannibalism, a practice considered pre-civilizational, part of today's philosophical and anthropological epistemic discourses' This question has many ways of being answered. From a historical point of view, we can situate a general interest in cannibalism throughout the twentieth century, as a resignified practice capable of opening up Western thought to new perspectives and horizons. This interest can be traced from the first anthropological works on Amerindian cannibal tribes that were already prolific from the early 1900s onward, like those by James George Frazer, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marvin Harris, and Pierre Clastres, among others.1 The theoretical force of these new ways of understanding cannibalism ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In his article "Postmodernidad y cinismo" ("Postmodernity and Cynicism"),1 originally published in 1994, the Mexican-Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría (Riobamba 1941–Mexico City 2010) develops a detailed critique of some of the basic ideological elements of capitalist modernity, whose entirety he characterises as a "mythical complex"2 and each one in particular as a "modern myth."3 In this text, he gives the "modern political culture"4 of those societies that secure their material existence under capitalist relations of production—with special reference to "western states at the end of this century"5—the name "realist political culture."6 In this text, there seems to be present a critique by Echeverría of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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