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Escorcia-Gravini, G. (2024). La gran miseria humana. Poemas recobrados. Editorial Uninorte

2025-01-03T17:14:37+00:00

Gabriel Escorcia Gravini (1891–1920) seemed destined for leper colonies or lazarettos, the result of the progress and public health policies implemented by Colombia’s ninth president, José Gregorio Rafael Reyes Prieto, between 1904 and 1909. This context is significant, as the poet from Soledad faced leprosy. He endured the disease in the municipality of Soledad (Atlántico), living in isolation and marked by the stigma of contagion (McCausland, 2011). Nevertheless, it is said that at night, “[…] he would leave his house dressed in white from head to toe, heading toward the cemetery” (Buelvas, 2024, p. 6). It is also said that his renowned poem was born at the foot of the graves, later set to music by Lisandro Meza in 1976 under the title Miseria humana (Human Misery).

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Absolute Knowledge as Experience

2025-03-23T02:27:49+00:00

The book The Experience to Come. Hegel and the Absolute Knowledge, by Luis Eduardo Gama, is analyzed. The article presents two specific observations on his interpretation of the passage from the moment of the Spirit to the moment of Religion, as well as on the Hegelian interpretation of the content of Christian religion and highlights the positive elements of his understanding of the concept of absolute knowledge in the Phenomenology of Spirit.

The Cognitive-Theoretical Functions of Subjectivity from Hegel’s Logic Model

2024-01-06T23:00:01+00:00

The aim of this paper is to discuss the logical-speculative model of derivation of the subjectivity's cognitive functions, as it is developed by Hegel in the chapter on "The Idea of Cognition" of the Science of Logic. With a hermeneutic approach, the analysis will concentrate on showing the originality of the Hegelian model, as opposed to that of transcendental idealism, as well as on highlighting its explanatory potential, not only in the context of a theory of subjectivity, but also in connection with its implications for a doctrine of the spirit. The main thesis of the study is that Hegelian logic formulates a logical-gnoseological model of subjectivity, which is able to elucidate both the generative matrix of its epistemic activity and the essential openness of reality to the cognitive structure of the subject.

Excessive Bodies, Reduced Bodies: A Philosophical Critique of the Biopolitics of Disembodiment

2024-02-24T19:07:10+00:00

This article aims to provide a new conceptual framework that allows for a deeper understanding of those biopolitics that we will characterize as oriented towards the reduction of the body. The argumentation will have the following objectives: (1) to show that this biopolitics is based on the ingrained prejudice about the exclusive
understanding between mind and body, (2) to distinguish two generalized types of corporeality that are constructed from this foundational dichotomy, types that we will call “excessive corporealities” and “reduced corporealities”, and (3) to present the social structure created from this division as crossed by an imperative of body reduction; this imperative generates, through more or less explicit violence, a social periphery of excluded bodies and an elite of disembodied subjects. We will conclude
by alluding to the possibility of resisting these biopolitics, reclaiming the exuberance of the body, and restoring its habitability.

Negarestani’s Poro-Mechanics as a Development on Deleuze Guattari’s Perforated Space

2024-08-20T17:30:50+00:00

This article deals with the work Cyclonopedia of the philosopher Reza Negarestani as a proposal for the development of the punctured space proposed by Gilles Deleuze. First of all, we will inscribe the ontological framework in which these spaces will move, based on Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy of becoming, immanent, univocal, materialistic and differential. The ultimate criterion for characterizing the spaces will be the sense of forces that Deleuze takes from Nietzsche. We will then explain the smooth and striated spaces worked by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus and then we will give an account of the of Negarestani's poro-mechanics, a perforated space where the protagonists will be the worms, the rats and the scorpions. In the conclusions we will present the figure of the outsider, a subversive agent antagonistic to the authoritarian power.

From Fear to Boredom: Passions and Education in Eric Weil’s Thought

2024-04-09T16:40:51+00:00

Several representatives of contemporary political philosophical thought have made an important contribution to the links that can be established between the problem of the passions (affections, emotions, feelings, etc.) and the field of human action (moral, social and political). In this context, the present study takes into account the contribution of the French-German philosopher Éric Weil, still quite unknown in the Spanish-speaking world. Based on the work proposed by Weil regarding the understanding of the problem of passion or passions in individuals and how to face the exercise of their education, we propose here a more direct look at the affections-passions of fear and boredom in their incidence in contemporary moral, social and political life.

A Meta-Anthropology Avant la Lettre in the thought of Max Scheler, Vladimir Soloviev and Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-08-12T18:40:59+00:00

I am interested in highlighting that meta-anthropology is a response to the crisis of metaphysics in the XX centuries and it has been developed avant la lettre in the philosophical proposal of Max Scheler, Vladimir Soloviov, and Nikolai Berdyaev.
Uniting these thinkers through this axis of meta-anthropology is an attempt that starts from the idea that the work of the three was to understand that neither anthropology, nor metaphysics alone represent viable answers to the challenges that human beings will face in the future. The three were ahead of their time through this idea, creating
original thoughts. Although it was Max Scheler who proposed a metaphysics of the human being (meta-anthropology) to confront the crisis of metaphysics —Soloviov offers the elements to understand this concept—, it is Berdyaev who develops this idea, thus showing an original and creative way of uniting two tendencies, Western
and Eastern, of philosophical thought.

Language as a Used-up and Forgotten Poem. Analysis of the Relationship between Poetry and Language from an Ontological Perspective

2023-12-05T12:41:15+00:00

The article analyzes the relationship between language and poetry from the ontological understanding of the power of the word as expounded by Heidegger and Gadamer and in contrast to the positivist understanding of language and poetry. We begin by studying the positivist position. For it, language is a tool at our disposal and poetry is this same language, but elevated to great power. Then, we present the ontological understanding of this question. Also, we see that poetry is the essence of language, which indeed consists in bringing things into being. Finally, we deduce here that this poetic power is used up and forgotten. This is the origin of the language we use every day.

The Possibility of a Philosophy of Music. An Analytical Study of the Concepts of Phenomenon, Time and Sound Space in Giovanni Piana

2024-03-14T15:12:54+00:00

This article aims to prove that Giovanni Piana’s philosophy of music sufficiently
illustrates the possibility of a structured and systematic reflection on music. The
proposal presented by the Italian philosopher, which originates and develops within the framework of a phenomenological perspective, allows us to understand the methodological problems that must be resolved and the structural analyses that must be proposed to understand the basis of a philosophical study of this art. After an introduction of some historical theories about music and the problem around the philosophy of music, we will focus on the philosophical proposal of Giovanni Piana where the Italian philosopher says to place us within the limits of music to highlight the structural legality that resides in the background of all the acoustic phenomenonthat the author defines the “sound space”.

Vital Ecology vs. Dark Ecology: The Dispute of the Ecological Event and the Influence of the History of Philosophy

2024-06-20T21:07:35+00:00

One of the fundamental challenges facing contemporary philosophy is the ecological crisis. Different concepts emerge to explain this new scenario: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene. For the latter, the fundamental issue is to imagine a new
global scenario that incorporates new agents, in addition to humans: plants, animals, objects, bacteria, and technological devices. Despite this majority consensus that calls for the generation of new post-metaphysical frameworks to think about the planet, a conceptual controversy is raging in philosophy around apprehending the ecological event. On the one hand, we have the vitalist and immanentist tradition that defends continuity and exceedance to apprehend ecology. Conversely, the transcendentalist tradition is positioned, whose central concern is discontinuity, death, and emptiness.

Abstraction: A Hermeneutics about Nature from Scientific and Economic Languages

2023-12-13T16:49:39+00:00

This article understands the influence of abstraction, in the man-nature relationship, from a hermeneutic perspective. Modernity had as its objective the instrumentalization of nature through technical abstraction from the unified mathematical system, giving way to various consequences that deteriorated the environment and affected the quality of life. It is necessary to generate an ethical conscience in which man is responsible for his actions in relation to nature and himself.

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Against The Silence/The Violence of the Archive: Re-Writing Slavery from Fiction/Imagination and in The Feminine (Adelayda Fernández Ochoa, Fabienne Kanor and Évélyne Trouillot)

2024-03-04T22:58:56+00:00

The article analyses three novels (two French-language, one Spanish-language) written by women authors, that deploy a gender perspective on the experience of women subjected to slavery between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The three, all written in the 21st century, reflect a new impulse to recover this/these history/histories within the Caribbean space (in which they are set, or at least linked to). The narratives relate to the archive in different ways, each one specifically resolving the silences and violences included in it in order to complement it through fiction and imagination and at the same time questioning its scope in order to account for these experiences. They thus propose a re-reading and re-writing of a part of the violent history of the Caribbean that is absent from the archive.

Segregation, racism and discrimination in Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora by Maryse Condé

2024-02-27T23:14:27+00:00

The article addresses Heart that laughs, heart that cries by the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé. The objective is to reflect on the fictional status of said book and study some of the meanings that run through it, such as: segregation, racism and discrimination. To do this, the analysis focuses on three texts that are part of this volume: “Family Portrait”, “History Class” and “The Teacher and Margarite”. The theoretical contributions of Frantz Fanon, Slavoj Žižek, George Lukács, Axel Honneth, to name just some of the most important authors, are appealed to. One conclusion of the analysis is that Condé's texts show that the supposed social assimilation of the Antillean black, promoted by France, is an ideological fantasy whose mission is to prevent the rebellion of this ethno-racial subject. Reality shows that, despite time, segregation, racism and discrimination by the French towards people of African descent in Guadeloupe continue.

Disruptive Writings in the Greater Caribbean from the Dominican Republic and Cuba: Rita Indiana and Ena Lucía Portela.

2023-11-30T20:48:05+00:00

This article analyzes the writing of Rita Indiana and Ena Lucía Portela, authors from the Greater Caribbean, known for their disruptive and unique style that challenges various literary conventions. Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé (2015) will be taken as a case study, examining the elements of her style that subvert both writing and structural impositions, while also questioning aspects inherited from colonization. Also, Ena Lucía Portela's Cien botellas en una pared (2010) will be addressed, highlighting its intertextual construction, the questioning of boundaries between fiction and reality, and its parody of the literary genre of noir novels. Taking into consideration these innovative and tempestuous literary styles, this article aims to contribute to the study of writing forms, a field that remains underexplored, particularly concerning Latin American and Caribbean female authors.

“In my blood as a black woman…”. Body, Identity and Memory in Colombian Afrofemenine Poetry

2024-02-23T20:10:31+00:00

The article analyzes the expression of Afro-feminine identity in the Anthology of Afro-Colombian Women Poets (2010). It traces the expressions of the racialized feminine condition through the poetic voices that present themselves as black women who are caregivers, mothers, and desiring bodies and who, also, recognize themselves as heirs of an Afro-descendant memory linked to the African continent and enslaved ancestors. The study allows to conclude that the literary expression of Afro-female identity in the anthology is constructed by interpellant voices with their own agency that pronounce themselves in a complex and nuanced way in the face of their reality and the memory they have inherited, with a tone that oscillates between the rejoicing of self-affirmation and the lament of precariousness and inequality. The voices consolidate a view of Afro-descendancy that includes the sphere of black-Africanism but overflows it by thematizing mixedness and intersectional oppression.

Political, Racial, and Cultural Emancipation: Caribbean Periodicals of the 1930s and 40s

2024-03-11T17:52:46+00:00

Periodicals offer a useful space to study developments and ruptures of written production at a specific historical moment of the cultural field. In this article, we are interested in analyzing four editorial projects (two newspapers and two magazines) that circulated in the Anglophone and Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the 1930s and 1940s, to identify the discourses and positions Black intellectuals occupied in the literary space. The corpus includes El Combate (Caguas, 1925-1967), The Atlantic Voice (Puerto Limón, 1934-1946), The Beacon (Port of Spain, 1931-1933/1939), and
Adelante (Havana, 1935-1939), publications quite different in and of themselves, but which, analyzed together help outline common topics dealt with during the period. Specifically, we focus on three main aspects: the debates over political emancipation, racial consciousness, and the growing sense of regional belonging. Our discussion seeks to locate each publication within the Caribbean cultural field and analyze how these shared aspects are presented in their pages.

“The Prose of the Sea”. Vision, Cycles and Narrative Poetics of the Caribbean in a Novel by Germán Espinosa.

2025-03-23T16:40:39+00:00

The first part of this article is dedicated to the poetic narrative of the Caribbean that takes shape in the extensive literary corpus influenced by this dynamic, fluctuating, and indefinable region. The Caribbean surpasses its borders and spills out in a poetic cartography typical of mythical fractality. The notion of the Caribbean surpasses all geographical constructions and draws its cartography. Subsequently, a detailed analysis of the novel La tejedora de coronas, by the Colombian writer Germán Espinosa, exposes its hypertextual relationship with the vignette Los cuatro ciclos, by Jorge Luis Borges, based on the sequential structure established in the novel. Germán Espinosa reclaims the four stories that Borges previously proposed in his writing, that is, stories of a war, a return, a search, and a sacrifice, through the transatlantic journey of the heroine, Genoveva Alcocer. Therefore, this article will display how the four ancestral stories could correspond to different stages of the same story within a single cycle.