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We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history , people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. All that was solid melted into air long ago and is now in full circulation... more
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      Critical TheoryReligionHistorySocial Movements
The state can not prevent the existence of universal ethical claims that are included in its regime but not represented in it. Alain Badiou's philosophy is devoted to these claims and defends them as forms of political truth striving for... more
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      Critical TheoryPhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical Theory
Action-­sentences about states, such as 'North Korea conducted a nuclear test', are ubiquitous in discourse about international relations. Although there has been a great deal of debate in IR about whether states are agents or actors, the... more
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      International RelationsPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy of ActionInternational Relations Theory
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      Social AnthropologyPolitical OntologyRitual (Anthropology)Ontological Anthropology
In the physical world, nothing appears, everything takes place or, if you like, exists.
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      OntologyArt HistoryArt TheoryPsychology of art
This article provides a map of the three-element conceptual set of the common (the common good, the commons, and the common) in reference to higher education. It does so using a method of political ontology. It discusses the three... more
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      Critical TheoryPolitical EconomyPolitical PhilosophyGlobalization
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      Indigenous StudiesPolitical OntologyEnvironmental JusticeFood Sovereignty
Published in K. de Munter, J. Michaux & G. Pauwels (eds.) Ecología y Reciprocidad: (Con)vivir Bien, desde contextos andinos. La Paz: Plural Editores, pp. 155-173
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      Human EcologyLatin American StudiesIndigenous StudiesBolivian studies
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      Critical TheorySocial TheoryNumber TheoryProbability Theory
This article addresses an ongoing controversy in Noway around designing and naming Sámi (indigenous) objects. The authors argue that controversies in many academic debates have been framed in essentializing ways that stress identity... more
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      Indigenous KnowledgePolitical OntologySámi StudiesCultural appropriation
Sergei Prozorov’s two-volume magnum opus, Void Universalism, is one of those works that appear on the intellectual firmament with the distinctive purpose not simply to cause a stir, but rather to trigger a revolution in the way we... more
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      International RelationsOntologyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical Theory
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      Critical TheoryPhilosophyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical Ontology
Local food projects are steadily becoming a part of contemporary food systems and take on many forms. They are typically analyzed using an ethical, or socio-political, lens. Food focused initiatives can be understood as strategies to... more
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      MetaphysicsApplied PhilosophyEnvironmental PhilosophySocial Justice
With its myriad of relationships, my study considers the Laich-Kwil-Tach enlivened world in which multiple beings bring meaning and understanding to life. Through exploration of Laich-Kwil-Tach ontology I engage with the theoretical... more
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      Political OntologyAnimismHistorical EcologyRelational Ontology
Taking Boaventura de Sousa Santos' argument that there is no global social justice without global cognitive justice as its starting point, this article suggests that there is no global climate justice without global cognitive justice... more
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      Political EcologyPolitical OntologyClimate JusticeColonialidad
Theoretical work about the acoustic epistemics of sound and the ethical ontologies they co-create in Sufi devotional chanting, based on a 7 month ethnography at the Naqshbandi Sufi community of Barcelona, Spain. Màster Oficial en... more
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      EthicsPhilosophical AnthropologyEthnographyAnthropology of the Body
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      Political OntologyNarrative StudiesSelfhoodSociology of the Individual
The primary focus of my dissertation is the trajectory of the democratic discourse in the post-Afghani era of Muslim political thought, in particular among the reformist (islahi) current. Toward this end, I situate my comparative... more
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      Political TheologyPolitical OntologyIslamic Political ThoughtRadical Democracy
W książce próbuję odpowiedzieć na jedno z głównych pytań współczesnej recepcji filozofii Spinozy: jaki związek zachodzi pomiędzy myślą polityczną a metafizyczną spekulacją w pismach autora Etyki? Pytanie o miejsce metafizyki w... more
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      Louis AlthusserPolitical OntologyAntonio NegriBaruch Spinoza
A partir de investigaciones que muestran cómo la provisión de comida y la cohabitación son fundamentales en la construcción del parentesco en los Andes, el autor muestra cómo esta misma lógica está presente en otras interacciones... more
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      AnthropologyOntologyAnthropology of FoodPolitical Ontology
This article seeks to offer a critical assessment of the conception of ethics underlying the growing constellation of 'new materialist' social theories. It argues that such theories offer little if any purchase in understanding the... more
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      Critical TheoryOntologyPolitical PhilosophyPosthumanism
En este artículo me interesa presentar una definición posible de ontología política. Para ello, comienzo señalando cuáles son los rasgos generales desde los cuales se la define como mero antecedente de la epistemología. Frente a ello,... more
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      Political PhilosophyPolitical TheoryPolitical OntologyTeoría Política
I argue that the "anarchist" reading of Stirner does no justice to his rich and nuanced thought, and that we ought to think of him as an ontological philosopher above all else.
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      Political PhilosophyAnarchismHistory of AnarchismPolitical Ontology
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      Feminist TheoryPolitical OntologyJane BennettNew Materialism
Este capítulo explora el surgimiento de la famosa idea de Pierre Clastres de la sociedad primitiva como una sociedad contra el Estado, y su relación con el tema del "Uno es el Mal". La exploración se basa en el análisis de la que fuera... more
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      Political AnthropologyParaguayTheories of the StatePolitical Ontology
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      Political OntologyCultural AntropologySocial Enviromental Conflicts
The central ambition of this dissertation will be to demonstrate that Schmitt continues to offer valuable insights on a range of topics which are of particular importance for contemporary critical theorists. Because of length constraints,... more
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      Critical TheoryJurisprudenceLegitimacy and AuthorityPolitical Theory
Esta es una version ligeramente deiferente del capitulo “Notes on the Political Ontology of Environmental Conflicts"
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      Latin American StudiesOntologyIndigenous StudiesPolitical Ecology
Memorias qom de la violencia y el poder desde la conquista del Chaco hasta nuestros días
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      OntologyPolitical OntologyAnthropology of Lowland South AmericaIndigenous History
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      Indigenous StudiesSTS (Anthropology)Political OntologyCosmopolitics
With Arturo Escobar. In Joni Adamson, William Gleason and David Pellow (Eds.) Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture. New York: New York University Press. PP. 164-167.
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      Cultural GeographyPolitical EcologySocial and Cultural AnthropologyPolitical Ontology
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesSocial TheoryGeography
Electronic government (e-government) has been one of the most active areas of ontology development during the past six years. In e-government, ontologies are being used to describe and specify e-government services (e-services) because... more
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      OntologySemanticsFormal OntologyOntology of Music
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      Computer ScienceInformation RetrievalOntologyKnowledge Management
Current debates about the Anthropocene have sparked renewed interest in the relationship between ecology, technology, and coloniality. How do humans relate to one another, to the living environment, and to their material or technological... more
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      Cultural StudiesHuman GeographyMythologyOntology
This chapter’s main concern is to draw out the implications for critique of bridging relationships between thinking about coloniality, about the questions the posthuman and more-than-human bring, and so also about ontology. It argues that... more
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      OntologyPolitical TheoryPosthumanismPolitical Ecology
I argue in this paper for a critical social ontology, or an approach to theorizing social reality and social institutions that is more than descriptive of social reality, but is also able to provide practical reasoning with an ontological... more
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      Critical TheorySocial TheoryOntologyCritical Social Theory
An interview with Isabelle Stengers
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      Critical TheorySociologySocial TheoryAnthropology
First five essays now published and available online • Contributors include Babette Babich, Gregory Moss, and Richard Polt, among others
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      Critical TheoryMythologyPhilosophyOntology
The conflicts that scarred the First International and resulted in its demise revolved around three core questions: the source of revolutionary causation and the nature of its process; the issue of authority in the revolutionary... more
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      Political PhilosophyPolitical TheoryMarxismAnarchism
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      Political OntologyDecolonial ThoughtAntropología culturalEpistemologías del Sur
Nearly four centuries ago, liberal political thought asserted that the state was the product of a distant, prehistorical, social contract. Social science has done little to overcome this fiction. Even the most radical of theories have... more
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      SociologyCultural StudiesPolitical SociologySocial Theory
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      OntologyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical TheorySocial Ontology
The monograph is devoted to the study of institutional, value and personal factors of the historical formation and existence of the phenomenon of a citizen in Russia. The citizen is considered in the conception of the paradigm of... more
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      Political OntologyHuman and Civil Rights and Freedom in Russiaполитическая онтологиятеория и методология политической науки
Problems posed by the 'Anthropocene' have caused many feminists to rethink a feminist ethics in a post-anthropocentric vein. In this context, a reconceptualization of the notion of responsibility as response-ability or ability to respond... more
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      Social TheoryEthicsFeminist TheoryJudith Butler
English: This work briefly analyzes the so called Amerindian Perspectivism, a theoretical approach that is gaining academic momentum in the framework of the ethnology of South American indigenous peoples. Even though I will not cover all... more
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      Cultural StudiesLatin American StudiesMythologyPhilosophy
Este estudo quer demonstrar a importância do poético-político para toda a obra de José Saramago e sugerir a sua necessária revisitação a partir da filosofia e da política. Argumenta-se, tanto desde uma perspectiva geral como a partir da... more
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      Portuguese StudiesPolitics and LiteratureLiterary TheoryLiterature and Politics
Although climate change increases annual temperatures on average globally, it does not increase them everywhere to the same degree. High mountains are one of the ecosystems that are facing the greatest escalation in temperatures, which... more
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      AnthropologyClimate ChangeClimate Change AdaptationAnthropology of Pilgrimage
Essay included in new book, Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy published by Karnac Books July, 2016.
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      Jacques LacanSlavoj ŽižekPolitical OntologyAlain Badiou