Kaiak (Aug 2020)
Un'ontologia parassitaria. Immaginario, corpo e politica nell'atmosfera coloniale
Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to discuss the presence, in colonization, of a parasitic ontology taking place in the fields of imaginary and corporeity. On one side, some postcolonial scholars highlight a crystallisation of the colonial imaginary affected by the European gaze, as well as by several European cultural categories such as the notion of individual or of national state. On the other side, a research about corporeity -and especially about the influence of colonization and of an atmosphere of violence inherent in colonialism as described by Frantz Fanon -shows a parasitized “body schema”, unable to open up to the world or to constitute his own ontology. In this phenomenological and existential sense, it is possible to talk about a parasitic ontology, which always implies parasitized ontologies. The parasitic ontology is the one of colonization, while the parasitized ontologies are those of the subalterns, prevented from providing their own vision of the world and so unable to deploy themselves in the existence. Moving from these phenomenological and ontological reflections, this paper suggests some further researching paths in order to re-think our global present in the light of this parasitic ontology. To this purpose it is kept into account what Achille Mbembe calls “Le devenir-nègre du monde”, a generalisation of the“fantomal paradigm”, the violent and deadly condition that colonization was for colonized people. These paths go towards a re-thinking of economy in the light of colonial dynamics, but also towards a politic based on emotions and a relational ontology which is able to take into account the social, political, ecological questions of our global time.
