“The cannibalism of capitalism unites us,” says Diana Taylor in her text. We understand. We are familiar with this kind of cannibalism; we’ve lived it; we’ve talked about it; we have been addicted and felt the push and pull of devouring, whatever: a person not a person. In 1928, Andrade said yes to cannibalism, but […]
Cannibalism, the “New” Pedagogical Diet
Viveiros de Castro and Oswald de Andrade know Marx and Freud, the ethnographic and blind discourses of “the savage” created in the XIX Century, and the critical paradigms that have shaped the anthropology and the production of cultural artifacts in the West, and by extension, in Latin America. I want to highlight the time distance […]