Nature can only exist where it is destroyed: Politically constructing freedom as heteronomy without servitude

The "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series features short and stimulating presentations from fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, marking the beginning of 1-month writing residencies.

This talk will focus on the necessity to reconsider the concept of nature as a system, and will be presented by Vladimir Safatle, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Presentation

Vladimir Safatle will discuss how the notion of "nature" is one of the main theological-political concepts inherited by the history of Western metaphysics and how a decolonization of our practices of social emancipation involves overcoming the dichotomies that such a notion implies. To do so, one must be attentive to the way in which the concrete social struggles of Latin American native peoples and their institutional inventions articulate a profound awareness of the relationship between our current economic, social and economic crises with a deeper epistemic crisis.

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