New materialism and runaway capitalism: a critical assessment
The “return to materiality” is a burgeoning phenomenon in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities. New materialists make a case against cultural constructionism and for a nondualist account of the world as comprised of fluid, ever-changing entities. This would allegedly offer grounds for...
- Autores:
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Pellizzoni, Luigi
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad Católica de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- RIUCaC - Repositorio U. Católica
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.ucatolica.edu.co:10983/23304
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10983/23304
- Palabra clave:
- NEW MATERIALISM
ONTOLOGICAL TURN
NEOLIBERALISM
POST-HUMANISM
HEIDEGGER
NUEVO MATERIALISMO
GIRO ONTOLÓGICO
NEOLIBERALISMO
POST-HUMANISMO
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Derechos Reservados - Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2017
| Summary: | The “return to materiality” is a burgeoning phenomenon in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities. New materialists make a case against cultural constructionism and for a nondualist account of the world as comprised of fluid, ever-changing entities. This would allegedly offer grounds for an embodied, post-humanist emancipatory politics. The article problematizes such claim. By relying on techno-scientific accounts of materiality, new materialism embroils with the analytics of truth, neglecting how nondualist ontologies underpin today intensifying forms of domination over humans and nonhumans. A “critical” humanism is needed, which refrains from ambivalent post-humanist narratives without reverting to dualist thinking. To this purpose Heidegger offers valuable insights. |
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