Etnografía desantrópica: entre relatos apócrifos del agua, profundas dicotomías y habitares líquidos

Abstract

In this text we address the possibility of deconstructing the relationships – that have water as a resource available to humans – that have ordered some dichotomies such as anthropos-nature, establishing that there are methodologies, theories and world visions that govern anthropocentric life, and they are out of stock. Our objective is to illuminate those possibilities that water has to think and feel from a perspective that is not centered on man as its manager and owner. From this perspective, we visualize the work of two artists: Acoustic Ocean (Ursula Biemann 2018) and To Stop Being a Threat and to Become a Promise (Carolina Caycedo 2017) – that promote discourses of conscience and affection another – and we carry out an ethnography in a deanthropic key as a vital force to establish new conditions based on other modes of relationship between humans, non-human species, technologies and immaterial entities that co-inhabit the planet.