Crip posthumanism and Native American Indian postanthropocentrism: keys to a bodily perspective in science

Abstract

From its origins, the dominant thought in the Western Culture, put the soul first and despised the body, generating distinctions and hierarchies in which the spiritual or immaterial was considered superior to the corporal or material. But the bodies, far from conforming to this, have not allowed themselves to be reduced to these dichotomous patterns. The queer, turning their complex identity around, discovered the body, worked with it, but returned to the field of immateriality in which the identity is lodged, although populated with hybridizations and transversalities. The crip movement have completed the gesture of the queer entering fully into the field of the body, denaturalizing categories that were anchored to him, such as deficiency or disability, and interpreting it as radically interdependent. However, in the absence of tradition in dealing with the body, both in reflection and politics, we are inspired by other cultures that always put corporality in the foreground to go in search of the body that the West Culture lost. The Native American Indians are explicit in terms of contrast between humans and non-humans, it follows that for them there is a unique culture with multiple natures, as opposed to Western, because it believes in plurality of cultures and in a uniform nature. In order to coexist with this diversity, the West has invented "cultural relativism" and "multiculturalism", while the Native American Indians have developed a "multinaturalism" with their "perspectivism". We propose to denominate perspectivism a modality of science and politics that could manifest the radical influence of bodies in the world.

Reseña de Pié (2019). La insurrección de la vulnerabilidad. Para una pedagogía de los cuidados y la resistencia.

“…Cabría aquí, preguntarnos por si la distinción con otras especies es la cultura, que nos hace supuestamente "humanos", o si, por el contrario, cada especie se percibe como humana y, más que una pluralidad de culturas, lo que hay es una pluralidad de naturalezas que nos hacen percibir el mundo desde nuestros cuerpos (perspectivismo), y que nos facilita una continuidad animal humano-no humano(Moya y Bergua, 2018).…”