Sousa Santos: más allá del.pensamiento abismal.

Good evening. This video is about the text by Souza Santos, "Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to an Ecology of Knowledges." It's a text included in the volume "Stop Colonizing the West: Beyond Abyssal Thinking," published by Prometeo, CLACSO, and UBA. In this text, Souza Santos will show some characteristics of abyssal thinking and how to go beyond it,

how to overcome it with an ecology of knowledges. This abyssal thinking is a system that posits visible and invisible distinctions, and the invisible ones are what underpin the visible. That is to say, the visible is explained by the invisible. In this way, reality is divided, and so we have the visible, which I have explained, and what is invisible. So,

from this—that is, the visible, which can be explained, and what cannot be explained, which cannot be understood because the invisible entities cannot explain it—then from there, reality is divided, where only what is on one side of the line exists. which can be explained by those invisible entities that are accepted whether they are atoms

or whatever they may be, if the two sides of the line cannot exist, that is, because what are the two sides on the line, those that ground the invisible and those that do not ground the invisible, those that do not ground the side of what is not grounded by the invisible, what does he

mean by that which is not explained by science, it is the side that science cannot account for, if then that does not even exist, if it is not even said to exist, everything that cannot be understood does not exist, then we had already seen in a previous text by Souza Santo that he raised this tension between what