Facing An Unequal World by Raquel Sosa Elizaga

Author:Raquel Sosa Elizaga [Elizaga, Raquel Sosa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781526435576
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2018-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

A voiding of concrete, distinct, incomparable substances is operated, in order to place everything in conditions of comparison and exchangeability. Universal, abstract and epistemologically commited to the modern vision, referents are built and they prevent the recognition of diversity, while tending to displace it to the level of abnormality or insufficiency. Thus, an impulse towards homogenization is generated, and it tends to confuse itself and be processed as an equivalent to equality. Specificities, differences or variations are considered accidents, abnormalities or roughnesses that have to be physically or symbolically remodeled, in order to guarantee a good performance of market or of the political arena where everyone comes to be a citizen. The way of ordering the infinite diversity is achieved through abstraction.

This homogenization, which does not consider real disparities and differences, is studied by Marx with respect to value. The abstraction of concrete conditions is what allows to establish the general comparability, the general equivalence, which makes the kingdom of merchandise, possible.

3. The nature-object was considered not only unduly magical, but also imperfect, and the technical capacities developed by man were oriented towards its correction. Human beings were conceived as a model of perfection. That explains the cult exhibited in Renaissance arts, and this superior quality was sustained in man’s ability to create the means or tools capable of controling, correcting and directing both the processes of life in the face of the forces of nature, as well as other phenomena concerning the material world. Either the elements considered inadequate were eliminated, or they had to be corrected. And what best than correcting once and for all the original matrix: the intervention in genetical definition to avoid the appearance of elements with an unadmissable degree of imperfection. The same happens in the case of molecular intervention. A kind of preventive war, applied to the reproduction of life. Not letting an imperfect element – or a noxious one to the standardization required by market – to be born. Instead or besides applying energies in the subsequent selection of adequate or inadequate elements, the idea of unique subjectness was taken to the manipulation of the objectual, to the point of wanting to correct the ways in which nature has chosen to give way to life. Imperfection justifies elimination.

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