Browsing by Author "Ambrosi De la cadena, Marco Antonio"

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Colonial assemblage and its rhizomatic network of education in Quito
(2022) Ambrosi De la cadena, Marco Antonio
Colonization has traditionally been studied as a monological and definitive period. This article seeks to problematize its analysis by means of the so-called ‘philosophy of desire’ and ‘rhizomatic thinking’, enriching them, in methodological terms, by the Actor-Network-Theory. In this vein, an alternative explanation of the colonial regime is offered by emphasizing how it assembled several worlds—Indigenous and Europeans—guided by a desiring-production that put originary accumulation before anything else; a standpoint that also enables a discussion about the network of colonial education deployed in the Audiencia de Quito, which can be evidenced by a revision of some actions of the Augustinian order during the sixteenth century. In conclusion, education was deeply related to colonial assemblage that was continuously deterritorializing the ‘New World’ and the indigenous cultures that inhabited it.
Epistemología de los cuerpos y los territorios: un análisis rizomático
(2020) Ambrosi De la cadena, Marco Antonio
The article based on rhizomatic thought from Deleuze and Guattari analyses diverse conceptions about bodies and territories considering the pre-Socratic period with Parmenides, neuroscience studies, and decolonial and community feminisms. Thus, a theoretical examination is developed criticising the definitions of bodies and territories as «given objects» which are configured as «bodies without organs» that are indispensable for capitalism and western thought. In response the aim of the article is to expose knowledge as a relational agency between bodies and territories that could be developed by interseccional segmentations. For that reason epistemology of bodies and territories assumes that without bodies there are no territories without territories there are no bodies and without both there is no knowledge.