Più grande, più lento di qualsiasi impero. Le alterità inassimilabili dell’immaginazione politica femminista
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: From Ursula K. Le Guin's Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971), the paper focuses on the issue of relationship to otherness from a philosophical and political perspective, taking into account its characters – specifically Harfex, the biologist, and Osden, the "empath" – in dialogue with feminist theorists such as Irigaray, Cavarero, Butler, Haraway, among others. On the one hand, we find a dichotomous vision of difference rooted in confrontation, categorization, hierarchization (and hence oppression and exploitation); on the other hand, we find otherness as interdependence and connection: a tactile, mucosal, not pacified relationship that is not anthropocentric, nor rational, and recognizes agency in otherness. A situated and embodied dynamic that is never given in advance. Together with Osden we will explore the possibility of empathy as a form of truth, and, linking up to Le Guin’s Earthsea saga and The Dispossessed, we will highlight two different modes of power-knowledge production: on one side, knowledge as organization, classification, and anthropocentric reduction to human perspective; on the other, knowledge as intimacy, equilibrium, connection, and unassimilability of the other.
Source: Iris (Roma Tre University)
Author: Castelli, Federica
Institution: Roma Tre University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6903597353
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