Athenea Digital (Mar 2011)

Revisión crítica de la política ontológica latouriana Critical Review of Latourian Ontological Politics

  • Paloma García Díaz

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 155 – 170

Abstract

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En este art&iacute;culo investigo c&oacute;mo interpretar y caracterizar lo que denomino &ldquo;pol&iacute;tica ontol&oacute;gica&rdquo; en el trabajo del fil&oacute;sofo Bruno Latour. As&iacute;, presento una revisi&oacute;n de la obra de Latour desde un an&aacute;lisis cr&iacute;tico de sus propuestas ontol&oacute;gicas, con el objetivo de clarificar cuestiones relativas al alcance de su proyecto pol&iacute;tico. La pareja &ldquo;pol&iacute;tica ontol&oacute;gica&rdquo; y &ldquo;ontolog&iacute;a pol&iacute;tica&rdquo; remiten respectivamente a la prescripci&oacute;n de c&oacute;mo debe comprenderse todo elemento de la realidad, desde una perspectiva a-moderna, y a la propuesta de un genuino proyecto pol&iacute;tico desde los poderes y c&aacute;maras bicamerales del Parlamento de las cosas de Latour. El hilo conductor que utilizo para desarrollar este an&aacute;lisis es una pregunta de cariz pol&iacute;tico que acent&uacute;a dos elementos: la exclusi&oacute;n de colectivos y la incertidumbre a la que hacer frente para construir un mundo com&uacute;n. Finalmente, frente a la propuesta latouriana, destaco c&oacute;mo las &ldquo;tecnolog&iacute;as de la humildad&rdquo; s&iacute; ponen de relieve estos dos elementos.<br /> In this article I study how to interpret and to feature what I call &ldquo;ontological politics&rdquo; within the works of philosopher Bruno Latour. In this sense, I make a reading of Latour&rsquo;s production which stems from his own ontological proposals in order to clarify some questions concerning the extent of his political project. The couple of expressions &ldquo;ontological politics&rdquo; and &ldquo;political ontology&rdquo; are used to achieve this task. The former implies how to understand reality from an a-modern point of view. The latter refers to latourian genuine political project which is described by different Powers and Houses within the House of Things. I use a political question as a device to analyze Latour&rsquo;s work who allows us to focus on exclusion of collectives and uncertainty that we have to face to construct our common world. Finally, against latourian proposal, I stress how technologies of humility are successful in addressing the previous features.

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