Photo: Exhibition \u201cAnywhen\u201d Philippe Parreno. Tate Modern, Londres. 2016. Olatz Gonz\u00e1lez Abrisketa<\/p>\n
Bulegoa z\/b is beginning a series of readings coordinated by Olatz Gonz\u00e1lez Abrisketa and Susana Carro Ripalda around the term \u201cCosmopolitics\u201d.<\/p>\n
The term \u201cCosmopolitics\u201d was proposed by Isabelle Stengers in 1996 to suggest a way of doing politics that would disallow the existence of a \u201ccommon world\u201d, the \u201ccommon good\u201d, or \u201cgood intentions\u201d; and hence the authority of certain voices in representing what was considered a single world. Stengers defends the existence of diverging worlds and multiple voices, which she encourages to converge in discussions that make no reference to transcendent generalisations or predetermined frameworks; but that should be relevant to particular questions and not necessarily give rise to agreements, but rather to new forms of thought that belong to nobody and where nobody is \u201cright\u201d. This cosmos of heterogeneously constructed assemblages serves as a framework for a series of proposals that extend political agency to other beings and worlds beyond the human, forcing us to think of how these worlds participate in our own constitution.<\/p>\n
The sessions proposed for these cosmopolitical readings will look at what this conceptual framework is giving rise to in the field of anthropology, and intend to generate dialogue with other disciplines like art, sociology, philosophy, biology or politics.<\/p>\n
Sessions will last from two to three hours. An introduction by the coordinators will be followed by a discussion of the session’s proposed text, around a series of questions: To what extent is the idea of cosmopolitics a viable one? How to recognise and include \u201cinvisible\u201d collectives or other beings in our decision-making processes? Are other ways of doing politics possible?<\/p>\n
SESSIONS AND TEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n 16 March 2017.<\/strong> Isabelle Stengers (2014). \u201cThe cosmopolitical proposal\u201d (\u201cLa propuesta cosmopol\u00edtica\u201d) Revista Pleyade<\/em>, 14, pp. 17-41.<\/p>\n 6 April 2017.<\/strong> Donna Haraway (2016) The Companion Species Manifesto (Manifiesto de las especies de compa\u00f1ia)<\/em>. Ed. Sans Soleil. (Chapters I, II and III, pp 9-72).<\/p>\n 4 May 2017<\/strong>. Marisol de la Cadena (2010). \u201cIndigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes\u201d. Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 334\u2013370.<\/p>\n 1 June 2017.<\/strong> Mario Blaser (2016). \u201cIs another cosmopolitics possible?\u201d Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, Vol. 31, Issue 4, pp. 545\u2013570.<\/p>\n Readings must be done individually BEFORE each session in order to move on to group discussion during the session itself.<\/p>\n To take part and be sent the texts for the sessions, please contact bulegoa@bulegoa.org.<\/strong><\/p>\n Susana Carro Ripalda<\/strong> (Bilbao, 1965) is an anthropologist, and has taught at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Durham Universities. She is currently a researcher with the Bizkaia:talent programme at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Universidad de Deusto. Her work focuses on studies of science and technology, bioethics, interspecific relations, personhood and relationality, all in specific comparative international contexts (Mexico, Brazil, India, Britain and the Basque Country).<\/p>\n Olatz Gonz\u00e1lez Abrisketa<\/strong> (Bilbao, 1973) is an anthropologist and professor with the Universidad del Pais Vasco\/EHU. As a researcher for the group \u201cIdentidad y cambio social\u201d, she mainly focuses on sport and gender. She alternates written and audiovisual production in works such as the book \u201cPelota Vasca: un ritual, una est\u00e9tica\u201d (2005) and the film \u201cPelota II\u201d (2015) co-directed with J\u00f8rgen Leth. She previously collaborated with Bulegoa z\/b in the \u201cLecturas perspectivistas\u201d seminar in 2013.<\/p>\n Susana Carro Ripalda and Olatz Gonz\u00e1lez Abrisketa have organised several reading groups together on current tendencies in anthropology, and have published the article \u201cLa apertura ontol\u00f3gica de la antropolog\u00eda contempor\u00e1nea\u201d (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo: Exhibition \u201cAnywhen\u201d Philippe Parreno. Tate Modern, Londres. 2016. Olatz Gonz\u00e1lez Abrisketa Bulegoa z\/b is beginning a series of readings coordinated by Olatz Gonz\u00e1lez Abrisketa and Susana Carro Ripalda around the term \u201cCosmopolitics\u201d. The term \u201cCosmopolitics\u201d was proposed by Isabelle Stengers in 1996 to suggest a way of doing politics that would disallow the existence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,100],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n