Can wethinkdifferently?
Working in the interstices is the art of transversality. Transversality consists in disclosing the reverse-side of common-places and working creatively to expand it.
Cutting across the disciplines to open a gap and breathe into another space.
Transversality
A modality of thinking that establishes connections and bridges (instead of delimitations) between different disciplines of knowledge (within Western culture) and ways of configuring the world (within and outside the parameters of mainstream Western culture). Transversal thinking cuts across the disciplines to gather different elements and bring them to a new form of synthesis. It interacts not only with discourses produced by the dominant epistemic institutions in the West but also with practices stemming from radically different world-configurations, and it brings seemingly incommensurable points of view together in an unprecedented dialogical confrontation.
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Ecosophy
A philosophy of life which considerably differs from the ‘science’ and the ‘politics’ of ‘ecology’. While ecology is centered on reforms that might render natural resources sustainable and protect the environment from destructive anthropization, ecosophy aims at recapturing a form of ‘wisdom’ that implies decentering human beings from the uppermost place in the so-called ‘hierarchy of creation’, becoming aware of our concrete embeddedness in a network of essentially interrelated human and non-human beings, and creating a different way of being-in-the-world with the aid of other (non-European) cultures whose relationship with non-human agency has not been destructive.
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Transculturality
A process in which we go beyond the framework of our own (dominant) world-configuration and its mechanisms of appropriation in order to understand, respect, and support other cultures’ ways of being. The exercise of transculturality consists in participating in the world-configuration of the other, thus gaining concrete insights into other modalities of being-in-the-world. This process is not merely intellectual. It implies going beyond oneself, abandoning one’s own comfort zone, questioning one’s own constitutive and regulative prejudices in a relational exercise of self- analysis and self-critique, gaining a broader understanding of the other and therefore of ourselves.
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Workshop: Order And Disorder – Figures of Chaos and Politics of Restitution
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Workshop: Tradition and Spirituality: The Question of Agency
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Research Work in Amazonia: The Yawanawa Tradition
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Transversal Paths
The online review Transversal Paths intends to recover a challenging exercise of thinking: cutting across disciplines and combining intellectual capacity with artistic creativity for the sake of a differential discourse. The resulting cartography crystallizes as a possible alternative both to the self-referential tendency of academic research and to the arbitrary character of social media productions – a widening rift pointing to a social and cultural crisis on a global level.