Revisión crítica de la política ontológica latouriana

Paloma García Díaz

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v11n1.828

Critical Review of Latourian Ontological Politics

Authors

Paloma García Díaz Universidad de Granada

Abstract

In this article I study how to interpret and to feature what I call “ontological politics” within the works of philosopher Bruno Latour. In this sense, I make a reading of Latour’s production which stems from his own ontological proposals in order to clarify some questions concerning the extent of his political project. The couple of expressions “ontological politics” and “political ontology” are used to achieve this task. The former implies how to understand reality from an a-modern point of view. The latter refers to latourian genuine political project which is described by different Powers and Houses within the House of Things. I use a political question as a device to analyze Latour’s work who allows us to focus on exclusion of collectives and uncertainty that we have to face to construct our common world. Finally, against latourian proposal, I stress how technologies of humility are successful in addressing the previous features.

Keywords

Ontological Politics, Excluded, Uncertainty, Technologies of Humility, House of Things

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Author Biography

Paloma García Díaz, Universidad de Granada

Paloma García Díaz holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Granada. She is member of the Research Group HUM 828 “Peace and Conflicts in the Contemporary World” at the Institute of Peace and Conflicts , University of Granada.