vol. 11 núm. 3 (2020): número especial

This article constitutes, in essence, an exploration around the epistemic background that underlies the pre-occupations and the key issues of contemporary ecological thought (based on a “holistic” ontological matrix of nature) seen from the need to develop a hermeneutic of cosmological scope (in accordance with the approaches by Edmund Husserl and Hans Blumenberg). In this way, it is possible to reveal/ the invisible immanence, the earthly background of our thought.

The word Metodoestesis (The paths of feeling), invented by Ana Patricia Noguera, names the epistemic trajectories described in this article. The first is the Ecosystem - Culture proposal, prepared by Augusto Ángel- Maya, one of the creators of Latin American Environmental Thought. In it, Augusto deviated from the Sustainable Development model, to think of the environment as emerging from the intersections between natural capital, social capital and economic capital, proposing to think of the environment as emerging from the relationships between ecosystems and cultures. The permanent contacts between these two systems opened the door to a systemic-aesthetic environmental thought. The second path is Body - Earth, emerging from the work of Ana Patricia Noguera. In this proposal, the path of feeling is placed in the bodies-between-bodies, which in their intertactality are transforming and dissolving each other. This aesthetic episteme opens the way to the ethical, as what is configured in these intertactalities and not as a meta-theory of values. From the two previous trajectories arises the episteme of the knowledge of the earth. In it, the organization of knowledge emerges from the earth in an ecopoietic key. From the Methodology, as a weaving of paths of feeling, we are interested in asking ourselves how we are inhabiting the earth.

Environmental governance consists of two different but complementary intervention approaches: the coercive way of the state and the regulatory way of the market.This article is an attempt to comprehend an alternative governance strategy that confronts this approach and, consequently, these two forms of intervention. This isabout the Agri-food Rural Territory of the Colombian Massif, a strategy that has been implemented, de facto, in various regions of the country, and in several municipalities in the north of Nariño and the south of Cauca in particular.

This article is concerned about the possibilities of what we are able to do once we acknowledge the fact that we are wandering bodies in contact with other bodies. What can we do? What does an environmental epistemology entail once sensitivity, body, meaning and affection are brought to the front? We begin with a discussion on dichotomies, monisms and dualisms, to offer, afterwards, a proposal from multiplicities, bodies between bodies, and encounters between radical alternatives. Is it possible to open a halfway point free from dualities, and, at the same time, respectful of differences? Can we imagine an environmental ethic that starts from the body, the sensible universe and the touch? We are unaware of all the power that a body entail when it is known as a body that dwell among other bodies.

The Author presents the idea of rhizome, which was created by two French poststructuralist philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The rhizome is an entirely alternative and bizarre thought structure. It tends to grow horizontally, immediately below or above the ground, creating stumps. It is impossible to classify, guide or intervene in its growth. The rhizome has no beginning or end, it lacks any axis of indexing or symmetry. It is characterized by a meaningless interval. The rhizome can break at one point and completely reconnect without losing its meaning, because instead of having a meaning it produces it. It is characterized by antigenealogy: it generates multiple versions of events, often contradictory, and favors freedom and chance.