Thinking with the pluriverse: a conversation with Mario Blaser

What if the entangled and interwoven worlds we live in are fundamentally distinct?
In this thrilling and dynamic interview, Overthink production assistants Aaron and Emilio talk with Dr. Mario Blaser, Professor of Anthropology and Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. We discuss his anthropological monograph, Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond, and his current work theorizing the Pluriverse.
Dr. Blaser discuss the nature/culture divide, the rich concepts of pluriverse and of political ontology, and what it might mean to perform and enact a world. We discuss Bruno Latour, cosmopolitics, Caribou/Atiku hunting, and much more. The ideas Dr. Blaser develops transform our very assumptions about the universe, ontology, and the possibilities of political mobilization.
What is modernity? How does it interact and dominate other worlds? What's next for politics in a world with many worlds? What is the role of the intellectual and the academic? And what do duck-rabbits have to do with all of this?
"How do you return to philosophy?"
"The only way to do it is with others."
We're immensely grateful to Dr. Blaser for this interview, and for allowing us to explore his ideas and work through the Overthink platform. His interdisciplinary work opens new ways to think about philosophy and politics. Find more of his work on his academic site:
www.mun.ca/archaeology/people...
Find his book with Duke University Press:
www.dukeupress.edu/Storytelli...
Read his open-access article, "Doing and Undoing Caribou/Atiku":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
His co-edited book with Marisol de la Cadena, A World of Many Worlds, on these questions and more:
www.dukeupress.edu/a-world-of...
Discover more philosophy mentioned by Dr. Blaser:
Brian Burkhardt, Indigenizing Philosophy Through the Land: philpapers.org/rec/BURIPT-2
Scott L. Pratt, Native Pragmatism: iupress.org/9780253215192/nat...
Arturo Escobar, Pluriversal Politics: www.dukeupress.edu/pluriversa...
Marisol de la Cadena, Earth Beings: www.dukeupress.edu/earth-beings
This video is part of a new Overthink interview series, History and Memory in the Americas. Check out the full series on the Overthink channel:
• History and Memory: Ph...
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[@alejandrajaramilloaristiza9436]

When is the new book coming out?

[@sharonzenit541]

Highly Pertinent to my culturally intersected experience of life! Thank you all for creating this specific episode of Overthink. To me it's a life-saver because Dr. Blaser provides terminology and examples that directly apply to my life, and to "Modernizian" (?) cultures today. With the merging of cultures via telecommunications and social media, many people are experiencing sudden awareness that other cultures exist and have quite valid - albeit conflicting - understandings of How Things Really Are. Cultural integration is challenging to start with. At the basis of solving cultural misunderstanding is communication. ("Communication can solve problems before they start.") . Thank You All for this episode of Overthink. Thank You Dr. Blaser for your important work.

[@dariusrad8058]

isn't this multi-universe that of the pre-moneteism religious worldview?