Filosofía desde las ruinas

Abstract

In dialogue with the concept of colonial mimesis, this essay explores philosophy as an anthropological object through which we know how power operates through words and desire. The category of progress is discussed to consider colonial mimesis as a desire that persists despite the consummation of the promise of modernity in the decline of the conditions of possibility of life itself. The author concludes that philosophy from the ruins allows us to map the operation of power through the epistemic bases of modernity.