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Eidos

Print version ISSN 1692-8857On-line version ISSN 2011-7477

Abstract

FALLAS-VARGAS, Fabrizio. Metaphysics of Extermination: Decolonial Considerations on Theodor W. Adorno's Critique of Identity and the Abject Construction of Alterity. Eidos [online]. 2024, n.42, pp.73-96.  Epub June 28, 2024. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.42.204.636.

The modification of dialectics proposed by Adorno's approach displays an immanent critique of the identifying principle that emerges from the conflict between the somatic component and the concept, between identity and non-identity. This is essential to understand domination as second nature in modern/colonial social economic formations. In this paper, we propose, first of all, to critically examine the relationships of alterity that structure the experience of the political within modernity/ coloniality, and the sociohistorical configuration of subjectivity. Secondly, from a decolonial approach to Adorno's analytical horizon, we explore the constellation of ideological mechanisms linked to the identity principle that are condensed in colonial alterity, and, that, as we expose in this analysis, finally converge in a metaphysics of extermination, where the particular is subsumed by the universal, which is carried out as a matrix of domination in which the experience of the abject and the stereotyping processes that structure the symbolic and racial construction of America are articulated.

Keywords : Abjection; Theodor W; Adorno; Critical Theory; Decolonial critique; stereotypes; colonial alterity; Latin American perspective.

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