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Viveiros de Castro and the Pluriverse
Examine the core claims of ontological pluralism and Amerindian perspectivism.
“Viveiros de Castro: Western multiculturalism says one nature, many cultures. Amerindian multinaturalism inverts this: one culture (the mode of being a subject), many natures (different bodily perspectives that constitute different worlds). [...] The jaguar does not have a false belief about blood/honey. It inhabits a different nature. Its world is constituted by its body and perspective, not by a misrepresentation of ours. [...] Escobar: the pluriverse is not just a philosophical position but a political demand, the right of communities to maintain and enact their own worlds against a globalizing modernity that treats its own ontology as the universal default. [...] Stengers: cosmopolitics is the slow, difficult diplomacy between ontologies that have no neutral ground to appeal to. — Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics (2009); Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse (2018); Stengers, Cosmopolitics (2010)”