Cabe los límites. Escritos sobre filosofía natural desde la ontología estética
María Antonia González Valerio · Mexico, Herder/UNAM, 2016
What is nature? is an inescapable question for philosophy, for in its answer what we are and our place in the world is in play. How to produce the right concepts to think the world we face today? How to philosophise the natural without losing the specificity of the humanities and without submitting to the techno-scientific domain, but also without pretending to know more than the sciences in the field of material explanation? How to establish a proper field for philosophy in which the question of the natural can be asked again after the ubiquity of technoscience?
Without Origin/Seedless (Sin origen/Sin semilla)
María Antonia González Valerio (coord.) · Mexico, UNAM/Bonilla editores, 2015
Without origin/Seedless was the first exhibition of transgenic and biotechnological art in Mexico. It took place between 2012 and 2013 in the MUCA Roma and MuAC museums of the UNAM. This book brings together the texts that accompanied the pieces, as a complement, supplement or even excess in front of the plastic, visual and sound proposals. It also includes critical texts by Jens Hauser, Deborah Dorotinsky and Rosaura Martínez.
Pròs bíon. Natural Reflections on Art, Science and Philosophy
María Antonia González Valerio (coord.) · Mexico, UNAM, 2015
The texts gathered here attempt to present a starting point in the question about the relationship between art, science and philosophy. You have to start with the obvious questions: Why think about this relationship again? Why create new points of intersection and overlapping? What is the “new” here?
Making Presence. Photography, Art and Biotechnology
Polona Tratnik · Mexico, Herder, 2014
There are two main themes addressed by this text by the Slovenian bioartist and philosopher Polona Tratnik: one is life, the other media and representation. This book deals with life and its mediations. It is not gratuitous or strange that in the era of technoscience there is much thinking around these subjects trying to elucidate what is and how it has come to be. Life appears transformed and modified from biotechnology.
