Beyond the observatory
This essay offers a critical reflection of an onto-epistemological and decolonial nature on the production of knowledge in general and in architecture in particular, taking Julio Cortázar’s tale From the Observatory (1972/2018) as a catalyst. In an attempt to approach the question posed by this issu...
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Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/486 |
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| Sumario: | This essay offers a critical reflection of an onto-epistemological and decolonial nature on the production of knowledge in general and in architecture in particular, taking Julio Cortázar’s tale From the Observatory (1972/2018) as a catalyst. In an attempt to approach the question posed by this issue of A&P Continuidad magazine, the essay analyzes and proposes intercultural points of contact between epistemological and ontological formulations, both traditional and contemporary ones, displacing rigid considerations of “the new” or “the old” in the production of knowledge. It is not a matter of interest in the essay to give an easy answer to the question, but to provoke a kind of discomfort that allows us to observe the political and ideological intentions that have given and give origin, meaning and direction to onto-epistemological formulations. Thus, the essay suggests multiple questions, especially about the power relations implicit in the various ways of understanding the production of knowledge—concepts, procedures, and protocols. That is, the essay invites to visualize the impact and consequences on human and non-human life that are brought into play with each choice of a specific onto-epistemological apparatus for disciplinary deployment—in this case, architecture. |
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