Georealismo: Contingências da filosofia

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Abstract

This text hypothesizes that while our epoch is characterized – on the one hand – by the impact of human activity on the entire surface of the earth, from the mountains to the glaciers to the atmosphere, it is also characterized – on the other hand – by the eruption of forces that are indifferent to this historical process. Thus, a georealism is evoked that can account for the magmatic forces that act as a diffuse yet deep trauma on all the strata of our life. These material forces, however, do not have the monolithic character usually attributed to geological aggregates, but pre- serve the turbulent traces of the processes of construction and destruction, of com- position and decomposition, from times when the living and the non-living did not oppose each other. Times when intimacy with foreign forces made visible the tumult of matter as the very form of its existence. A materialistic form of realism in a world without unity must start from the obvious fact that we are not alone, that we are immersed in an environment infinitely greater than the human as our only reality. This requires a new sense of presence that precedes any representation, and also the ability to comprehend a reality populated not by things but by forces, by parts of a discontinuous formation of incommensurable worlds.
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)19-33
Number of pages15
JournalAzimuth
Volume11
Issue number21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Keywords

  • Ecology
  • Philosohy
  • Geophilosophy
  • Mystique
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Postcolonial studies

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