Author	Arturo Escobar
Type	book
Year	"2018"

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Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

Arturo Escobar

To Bob Marley, a prophet of our times

To the Zapatistas of Chiapas, for their pluriversal imagination

To the indigenous, Afrodescendant, and peasant communities of the Norte del Cauca region of Colombia, for their steadfast determination to defend the tejido de la vida (the relational weave of life) against rampant destruction by modern worlds.

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction

I Design for the Real World - But Which “World”? What “Design”? What “Real”?

1 Out of the Studio and into the Flow of Socionatural Life
2 [[Elements for a Cultural Studies of Design]]

II The Ontological Reorientation of Design

III Designs for the Pluriverse

Conclusion References

Index

autonomy,

5, 165–66, 174, 253n11;
biological, 168, 171;
definitions of, 173, 175;
development and, 167, 172–73, 184;
forms of, 173;
Nasa activists on, 199;
ontonomy and, 32, 172–73, 178, 184;
sociocultural domain of, 172–76;
territorial, 174–75, 186–88, 187 Autopoiesis,
xiv, 5, 168–72; allopoiesis and, 173, 253n10; communal system and, 180; definition of, 169; social systems of, 183; uroboros and, 252n2 Beer, Stafford,
251n1 Blaser, Mario,
xiii, 66, 93, 238n14, 251n23 Cybernetics
87–88, 96, 108–9, 241n1, 251n1 complexity theory,
83, 94, 115; critical social theory and, 156, 170–71, 243n15, 252n5; Goodwin on, 224–25, 236n25; Leff on, 124; Taylor on, 170, 252n4 computationalist model,
43, 80 Commoning,
16, 144–47, 151, 176, 198–200; autonomy and, 175, 178, 188; reclaiming of, 69–70, 223; Transition Town Initia- tive and, 138, 140–41 de la Cadena, Marisol,
xiii, 66–67, 95, 216–18; on commons, 146; on political ontology, 238n14 decolonial theory,
11, 46, 80, 133–34, 217;
design and, 117, 206–8;
economic development and, 62;
epistemology and, 94, 97–99, 206, 223–24, 250n17;
feminist, 65–66, 176, 182–83, 231n6;
individualism and, 85;
interdisciplinary, 166;
Mignolo on, 205;
political ontology and, 52;
postcolonialism and, 42, 46, 80, 243n12;
Varela on, 81 developmentalism,
6–7, 95, 177, 224, 245n7;
agriculture and, 66;
alternatives to, 90, 96, 147–48, 154, 161–62, 205–9;
autonomy and, 167, 172–73, 184;
in Bolivia, 254n17;
in Cauca Valley, 190–201;
coloniality and, 31, 94;
critics of, 242n8, 246n12, 250n17;
defuturing projects and, 190–91;
design in, 59–62, 65, 184–88, 187;
globalization and, 65, 83, 141, 172;
governmentality and, 60;
heteronomous, 32, 173;
Life Plans and, 73–75, 173, 251n23;
technological, 18, 31–32, 116, 231n8.
See also degrowth; sustainability epistemology,
34;
autonomous design and, 184;
decolonial theory and, 94, 97–99, 206, 223–24, 250n17;
definitions of, 92, 242n11;
Gutiérrez Borrero on, 206;
Ochoa Gautier on, 130;
positivist, 80, 88, 107, 242n11;
poststructuralist, 92, 96, 97, 115, 243n15;
Sharma on, 212;
of the South, 67–69, 250n17 feminist political ecology,
51-52, 64-66, 146, 250n17 Flores, Fernando,
92, 92, 105, 110, 123;
on ontological design, xiv, 42, 116, 241n1;
on organizational theory, 245n8;
on Project Cybersyn, 251n1 Illich, Ivan,
7–10, 200, 211;
popular communications and, 229n2;
on social transitions, 139;
on technology, 230n5 Marxism,
20, 46, 62–63, 83, 229n2, 244n19 Maturana, Humberto,
xii, 3, 33, 79, 205, 232n9;
on Autopoiesis, xiv, 5, 168–72, 183;
on biology of love, 13, 83, 171, 241n1;
on cognition, 42, 81, 240n1, 252n1;
on interconnected communities, 213–14;
on “matristic cultures,” 12–14;
on rationalism, 82;
on structural coupling, 169 Modernity
83–91;
critical analysis of, 80;
design and, 32;
Eurocentric, 67–68, 81, 93;
Nandy on, 128;
ontological dualism and, 3, 19–20;
pluriverse and, 129, 200, 256n8;
Santos on, 68;
Varela on, 97–100;
von Werlhof on, 14 ontonomy
32, 172–73, 178, 184 One-World World (OWW),
66–68, 71; Ingold on, 87; Law on, 66, 86, 131 Pluriverse
4–7, 117, 170–71, 190;
autonomy of, 175, 184;
bioregionalism and, 5, 45, 142, 143, 196;
definitions of, xvi, 257n15;
design for, 198;
dialogic, 52, 161;
Gutiérrez Borrero on, 205–6;
of interculturality, 181;
invisibility of, 68;
Manzini on, 130, 164, 208;
Maturana on, 205;
modernity and, 129, 200, 256n8;
political ontology and, 66–70, 86, 94–95, 216–18;
rationality and, 211;
risks in, 256n8;
sustainability and, 59, 189;
transitions toward, 15–17, 188;
Zhang on, 131 political ecology (pe),
3, 62–67, 76, 186;
feminist, 51–52, 65–66, 146, 250n17;
Leff on, 124;
postdualist, 64;
schools of, 238n12 political ontology (PO) poststructuralism,
46, 63, 88, 234n14;
complexity theories and, 252n4;
epistemologies and, 92, 96, 97, 115, 243n15;
Marxism and, 156;
systems thinking and, 170, 250n17, 252n4 relationality
autonomy and, 171, 178, 204;
biology of love and, 83, 216;
ecology and, 12;
feminism and, 65;
music and, 130;
nature/culture divide and, 100–104;
nondualism and, 20–21, 157;
political activation of, 95–97;
presencing and, 125 relational ontologies,
129–31 Systems Thinking
35, 62, 114, 127, 170–71; cognitivism and, 241n1; pioneers of, xii; poststructuralism and, 170, 250n17, 252n4; transition design and, 152–63, 155.
See also living-systems theory Theories of Change
155, 156, 250n17 Varela, Francisco,
xii, 3, 79–80, 167, 211;
on autonomy, 165;
on autopoiesis, xiv, 5, 168–72, 183;
Buddhism and, 241n1;
on Cartesianism, 81;
on cognition, 42, 81, 240n1;
on “ethical know- how,” 110, 126–27;
on modernism, 97–100;
on objectivity, 252n6;
on structural coupling, 169;
on transition design, 157 Zapatistas,
xvi, 7, 14, 177, 180;
on autonomy, 165, 172, 253n8;
declarations of, 173–74;
on globalization, 86, 174;
Juntas de Buen Gobierno of, 174;
World Social Forum and, 15–16

My Notes

Buen Vivir Design as a theory of change Review of Designs for the Pluriverse Pluriversal Politics Protocol Reframing political projects as design projects enables pluriversal, decolonial worldbuilding

Meri Leeworthy

Designs for the Pluriverse

Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

Arturo Escobar

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