Nature, culture and disciplinary architectures. Infrapolitics of an (inevitably) unending debate
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nature, culture, philosophy of interdisciplinarityAbstract
In this text I analyze disciplines such as paleoanthropology, bioarcheology and human ecology in which different domains of knowledge intersect, some coming from natural sciences while others from social and human sciences. These disciplines are the hotspots in which the relationships among sciences are negotiated, in which the margins of science are drawn. Hence the relevance of analyzing the dynamics that direct these encounters. Here I argue how this occurs within the boundaries of an architectonical project that aims to connect in a coherent manner these different domains through “hinge sciences” that present themselves as mediators. However, I also show how this act of mediating is inescapably political although here politics always implies the ponderation of competing ontologies supported by infrapolitical dimensions ruled by processes of identification and dis-identification. Finally, I show why, even if the frontiers between the human and the nonhuman are always open to negotiation, we should not lose sight of the fact that our world-constructing capacities are not mere instances of niche construction.
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