Editorial
Anthropocene and the crisis of anthropocentrism, getting the problem
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2021i24p6-13Abstract
Anthropocentrism has been put in check in the field of cultural and anthropological studies with great vigor, especially with the crisis that began in the 1960s, which has as its axis the representation of alterity and authenticity in ethnographic studies, as James Clifford and George Marcus point out in Writing Culture Debates (1986). Indeed, the post-1968 period shed new light on how to talk about other peoples, other existences, and reflect the differences that humanism had hitherto left out.
The Vitruvian Man (cf. BRAIDOTTI, 2013; HARAWAY, 2016), the image that best catalyzes anthropocentrism with Leonardo da Vinci's features, which depicts a man occupying the center of the sphere of the universe corresponds to a pillar of Modernity, is suddenly turned upside down. With The Words and Things: an archaeology of the human sciences (2001), Michel Foucault asks the seminal question to shake the fragile walls of classical humanism: "What counts as human?" This question provokes seismic tremors for what lies outside this premise, that is, what differs, on levels and scales, from the white, heterosexual, European man. The crisis of anthropocentrism opens up a huge range of perspectives that unfolds across anthropology, biology, semiotics, postcolonial studies, feminism, philosophy, technological studies, linguistics, etc. [...].
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