Anarquía infrapolítica: por un nuevo amor al mundo

Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott

doi:10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1621

Infrapolitical anarchy: For a new love for the world

Authors

Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott University of Michigan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9570-6780

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Abstract

What is infrapolitics? How is infrapolitics related to the question of anarchy? And, finally, what makes this approach relevant, or even urgent? This work looks at the relationship between anarchy and philosophy based on the recent contributions by Catherine Malabou, before returning to the existential problematic posited by Martin Heidegger and revisited by Reiner Schürmann, to interrogate our present; that is, to consider a world that seems to be increasingly subordinated to the logic of automation and standardization, in the face of which the usual political responses appear inadequate. Finally, based on a reading of Benjamín Labatut’s novels, we try to show the closure of this world, facilitated by a growing expropriation of the decision of existence, which is now monopolized by a decisionist vanguard of experts who have the power to execute an irreversible annihilation. It is in this context that we maintain that infrapolitical anarchy represents a non-determinative relationship with the world; that is, that implies a new love for the world in which the very possibility of existence is at stake.

Keywords

infrapolitical anarchy, facticity, decision of existence, worldliness, pestilent thought

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Author Biography

Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, University of Michigan

Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott is professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, United States. He studied sociology and philosophy in Chile and earned his PhD in Latin American literature at the University of Pittsburgh (2003), United States. His publications include the books Asedios al fascismo. Del gobierno neoliberal a la revuelta popular (DobleA Editores, Santiago, 2020), La desarticulación. Epocalidad, hegemonía e historicidad (Macul, Santiago, 2019), Heterografías de la violencia. Historia Nihilismo Destrucción (La Cebra, Buenos Aires, 2016), y Soberanías en suspenso. Imaginación y violencia en América Latina (La Cebra, Buenos Aires, 2013). He has also published an edition of Ernesto Laclau’s lectures in Chile, entitled Hegemonía y antagonismo. El imposible fin de lo político (Cuarto Propio, Santiago, 2002), and in 2016 he co-edited (with Clemencia Ardila and Luis Fernando Restrepo) the volume Narrativas en vilo (University of Arkansas-Universidad Eafit: Medellín). He has translated John Beverley’s books Subalternismo y representación. Argumentos en teoría cultural (Iberoamericana, Madrid 2003) and Políticas de la teoría. Ensayos sobre subalternidad y hegemonía (Caracas, CELARG, 2011), and William Spanos’s, Heidegger y la crisis del humanismo occidental. El caso de la academia metropolitana (Santiago, Escaparate, 2009). He regularly teaches at the University of Michigan and has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago de Chile; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, and 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Ciudad de México, México. ORCID: https://doi.org/0000-0002-9570-6780