Cannibal Feminism.

Abstract

I want to develop the figure of the cannibal (Andrade, De Castro, Rolnik) as a critical feminist tool in order to contribute both, to the contestation of the neoliberal geopolitics of New Global Order and the metaphysics of knowledge that is in its’ core. By metaphysics of knowledge I mean the trick that shows the idea of A World order as something that sustains instead of as an effect, of some practices of knowledge that are active in the context of the society of knowledge and the cognitive capitalism. My aim is to reach the affective “plan of composition” that Deleuze and Guattari (1987) uncovered in order to empower myself and my community with the aesthetic/performative forces of thinking. During my GEMMA studies, I have learnt the transformative power of the feminist practice of situating the own research and the own production of knowledge within the cultural and the existential context in which it is being made. In this way this essay can be rode as a situation and mapping exercise of mine in my effort to going ahead on feminist thinking practice. I have structured my research following three becomings or displacements that I am living nowadays due to my economical exiliad situation as European in Ecuador. I have systematized them as follows. In the first place, a geopolitical and epistemic displacement to the global South from the global North, that gives me the possibility of practicing a comparative ontology between western tradition and Amerindian one (Chapter 1). Secondly, a displacement to the critical studies (main line in Utrecht University’s GEMMA program development but also main line of current latin-american decolonial thinking) from the hard disciplines (as long as I come from the “hard disciplines” as is philosophy in which I gained my Ph.D). The turn of the methodologies, priorities and results of knowledge that is being advanced by critical studies, especially by feminist and decolonial one will be worked on chapter two. Thirdly, a displacement from the disciplinary and academic research and teaching to the research/teaching on arts. This is the line in which I am currently developing my practice and that is opening to new methodological lines to explore the constitution of subjects and objects of thinking from, precisely, the composition plan instead of the representational and abstract one. From this plan, thinking shows its creative and performative powers of structuring and deconstruct worlds, selves and others.

The thing is that thinking, at least in a feminist way, introduces in the subjects that support this action a kind of motion device that transforms them, leaving them in the peculiar form of become (to become a woman, to become a feminist, to be a trans, to be a queer). Here I wanted to go close this transformational (plastic) force that thought introduces in the human affairs in order to show what a creative tools are its productions, as are ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics.