Abstract

CARMONA HURTADO, JORDI. NON-HUMAN AGENCIES IN ART: CROSSROADS BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2022, vol.71, suppl.9, pp.181-201.  Epub June 25, 2024. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v71n9supl.106751.

In this paper we propose a cross-referenced reading between some aspects of anthropology (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alfred Gell, and Viveiros de Castro) and aesthetic discourse (Friedrich Schiller and Deleuze/Guattari, mainly). Anthropology has been constituted as a new kind of knowledge that implies peculiar ethics based in decolonization of thinking. This process of decolonization supposes itself the de-construction of the most deeply rooted binarism in Western philosophy, i.e. that one that restraints the attribution of agency only to human beings. Our purpose is to show that modern aesthetic thought has operated similar critics, clearing a path towards the possibility of thinking non-human agencies in art.

Keywords : Anthropology; non-human agencies; art; aesthetics.

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