# Claudio Canaparo

Claudio Canaparo is currently a visiting professor at Universidad de Quilmes, in Argentina. He has written as a literary critic, epistemologist, sociology of culture analyst and philosopher.

## Education and career

Canaparo was born in the city port of Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a mother of Hebrew origins and an Italian rooted father; he was a traveller, manual worker and scientific researcher before entering academia. He studied at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Rosario, at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, at the DAMS (delle arti, della musica e dello spettacolo) at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, and received his Ph.D. under the supervision of William Rowe at King's College London in 2000.
Prevented from working in Europe as a philosopher or social scientist, he developed most of his projects in academia as a ‘Latin American specialist’. He joined the Faculty of Arts at Exeter University in 1995 where he created the Centre for Latin American Studies. In 2009 he was appointed Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, where he stays until 2015. He was also Associated Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium between 2007 and 2012. Between 2015 and 2021 he was professor or philosophy at the Académie de Bordeaux in France.
In 2012 he started to supervise and teach within the postgraduate program from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, both in Argentina. In the same year he developed a project of teaching basic philosophy to 8–10 years old children from ‘Arc-en-Ciel’ public school of Feugarolles in France. From 2015 to 2021 he taught philosophy at the Lycée Stendhal (Aiguillon), at the Lycée George Sand (Nérac), and at Lycée Jean-Baptiste de Baudre (Agen), all in France.

## Themes and related subjects

The principal effort of his work goes to establish the relation between knowledge and conceptual evolution, mainly focused on theories and related concepts about space with peripheral areas of the planet or, more precisely, having the peripheral spaces of the planet as its main intellectual frame. Themes of his works also include sociology of knowledge (Muerte y transfiguración de la cultura rioplatense, 2005), epistemology (Geo-epistemology. Latin America and the Location of Knowledge, 2009) and colonialism (La cuestión periférica. Heidegger, Derrida, Europa, 2021), authorship theory (The Manufacture of an Author, 2000; El mundo Ingaramo, 2015), and science and writing (Ciencia y escritura, 2003).
In the 2010s he was working in relation with the radical changes that the Anthropocene conditions of the biosphere has in terms of speculation and thinking, always in peripheral areas of the planet (El mundo de atrás. Efecto antropoceno y especulación en los ámbitos periféricos, 2019; El pensamiento basura. Transitoriedad, materia, viaje y mundo periférico, 2017). More specifically, he is trying to explore the growing entanglement between thinking and anthropology, and the consequences, on peripheral areas of planet, of the classical philosophical tradition of using cartesian-kantian ways of conceptualization to justify a theory of understanding (El fin de la naturaleza. Fallo y propósito en la especulación. Antropología de la naturaleza en la periferia, 2023).
More recently he had been working on the consequences and possibilities that a radical standing concerning academic institutions, post-colonialism, climate change and the mercantilization of knowledge have in terms of understanding and savoir-faire within peripheral areas of planet (Insurrección nativa. Antropofósiles, inhumanismo, especulación, 2024). Equally, he is working in an intellectual and conceptual history written from an ethnographical reversal standpoint. Currently, his focus is on formulating a notion of understanding as a tool to determine what can be considered as politics in terms of Anthropocene and from a peripheral point of view.

## Select bibliography
### Books

* (1998) El artificio como cuestión. Conjeturas en torno a Respiración artificial.
* (2000) Jorge Luis Borges. Intervenciones sobre pensamiento y literatura.
* (2000) The Manufacture of an Author. Reinaldo Arenas’s literary world, his readers and other contemporaries.
* (2000) Imaginación, mapas, escritura. Noción de espacio y perspectiva cognitiva.
* (2001) El perlonghear. Postulados de un pensamiento posracionalista.
* (2004) Ciencia y escritura. Una historia retórica e intelectual de "Nature" 1869-1999.
* (2005) Muerte y transfiguración de la cultura rioplatense: breve tratado sobre el pensamiento del espacio en el Río de la Plata, 1830-1980.
* (2007) El enigma de lo real (ed. with Geneviève Fabry).
* (2009) Geo-Epistemology. Latin America and the Location of Knowledge.
* (2011) El imaginario Patagonia. Ensayo acerca de la evolución conceptual del espacio.
* (2015) El mundo Ingaramo.
* (2017) El pensamiento basura. Transitoriedad, materia, viaje y mundo periférico.
* (2019) El mundo de atrás. Efecto antropoceno y especulación en los ámbitos periféricos.
* (2021) La cuestión periférica. Heidegger, Derrida, Europa.
* (2023) El pensamiento basura. Transitoriedad, materia, viaje y mundo periférico. New edition.
* (2023) El fin de la naturaleza. Fallo y propósito en la especulación. Antropología de la naturaleza en la periferia.
* (2024) Insurrección nativa. Antropofósiles, inhumanismo, especulación.

### Articles/ chapters in books

* (with Sergio Pedernera) ‘Sangre, espacio y cartografía’, en Mataderos. Pampa y asfalto, Buenos Aires: Dirección General patrimonio, museos y casco histórico, 2022, pp. 17-35.
* ‘Diéresis y acontecer en The Imaginary Agent (1985) de Edmundo Benaján’, en Claudia Hammerschmidt, ed. Patagonia literaria II. Funciones, proyecciones e intervenciones de autoría estratégica en la nueva literatura patagónica, Potsdam: INOLAS, 2016, pp. 445–459.
* ‘La especulación cartográfica’, in Sergio Pedernera, ed., Ars Cartographica. Cartografía histórica de Buenos Aires 1830–1889, Buenos Aires: Dirección General Patrimonio e Instituto Histórico, 2015, pp. 17–20.
* ‘Film and Migration in Latin America’, in Immanuel Ness, ed. Encyclopaedia of Global Human Migration, London: Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
* ‘El pensamiento del ojo’, in Israel Sanmartín Barros/Patricia Calvo González/Eduardo Rey Tristán, eds., Historia(s), imagen(es) y lenguaje(s) en América Latina y Europa, Santiago: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2012, pp. 125–141.
* (with André-Jean Arnaud, Érika Patino Cardoso, Marco Aurélio Serau Junior, Ricardo Rollo Duarte) ‘Frontières’, in André-Jean Arnaud (ed.), Dictionnaire de la globalisation, Paris: L. G. D. J., 2010, pp. 226–228.
* (with Guilherme Figueiredo Leite Gonçalves, Márcio Alves Fonseca) ‘Gouvernabilité’, in André-Jean Arnaud (ed.), Dictionnaire de la globalisation, Paris: L. G. D. J., 2010, pp. 263–265.
* (with Guilherme Figueiredo Leite Gonçalves, Márcio Alves Fonseca, Orlando Villas Bôas Filho) ‘Pouvoir’, in André-Jean Arnaud (ed.), Dictionnaire de la globalisation, Paris: L. G. D. J., 2010, pp. 415–419.
* ‘Geo-Epistemología’ in Hugo E. Biagini/Arturo Roig (dirs.), Diccionario de pensamiento alternativo II, available at www.cecies.org. Project of ‘Pensamiento Latinoamericano Alternativo’, based at the University of Lanús, Argentina.
* ‘Science and Empire. The Geo-epistemic Location of Knowledge’ in P. Lorenzano, H-J Rheinberger, E. Ortiz and C. Galles, eds., History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Oxford: UNESCO/EOLSS Publishers, 2008.
* ‘La consumación del realismo’ in G. Fabry/C. Canaparo (eds.), El enigma de lo real, Bern: Peter Lang], 2007 pp. 199–275.
* ‘The <Nature effect> in Latin American Science Publications’ in E. Ortiz/E. Fishburn (eds.): Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America], London: [Institute for the Study of the Americas], 2005, pp. 97–118.
* ‘Marconi and other Artifices: Long-range Technology and the Conquest of the Desert’ in J. Andermann/W. Rowe (eds.), Images of Power. Iconography Culture and the State in Latin America], Toronto, 2005, pp. 241–254.
* ‘Medir, trazar, ver. Arte cartográfico y pensamiento en Jorge Eduardo Eielson’ in José Ignacio Padilla (ed.), Nu/do. Homenaje a J. E. Eielson, Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú], 2002, pp. 289–314.
* ‘De bibliographica ratio’ in W. Rowe et al. (editors): Jorge Luis Borges. Intervenciones sobre pensamiento y literatura, Barcelona/Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2000, pp. 199–247.
* Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, 926 pp. Articles on: (1)‘GELMAN, Juan (1930- ) ’; (2)‘Juan Gelman: el juego en que andamos’; (3)‘Cambaceres, Eugenio (1843-1888)’; (4)‘ORTIZ, Juan Laurentino (1896-1978)’; (5)‘SORIANO, Osvaldo (1943- ) ’; (6)‘El juguete rabioso en las Aguafuertes porteñas’; (7)‘El astillero’; (8)‘Ibarguengoitia, Jorge (1928-1983)’; (9)‘Yañez, Agustín (1904-1980)’.

### Articles in journals

* ‘A dónde ir, qué hacer. Periferia y latourismo’, in Revista Orillera, Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, año 3, num. 4, primavera 2018, pp. 63–68.
* ‘Historia especulativa del presente’, in Historiografías, número 15, Enero-Junio, 2018, pp. 16–21. Doi 10.26754/ojs_historiografias/21744289
* ‘Más allá del fin del mundo: Seguridad, violencia, territorio’, in Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia, número 17, 2017, pp. 279–298.
* ‘La idea de revolución en la periferia’, en SÉMATA, Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades, 2016, vol. 28: 29–55.
* ‘Was ist Aufklärung? o la teoría del iLuminismo’ in Pensamiento de los Confines, University of Buenos Aires, número 29, mayo 2013, pp. 171–176.
* ‘El Antropoceno argentino’, in Revista Orillera, Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, año 1, num. 1, invierno 2016, pp. 67–71.
* ‘Migration and radical constructivist epistemology’, in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, volume 3, number 2, pp. 181–200, 2012.
* ‘Para una fisiología de las condiciones del especular. Posthumanismo, pensamiento e historiografía europea en la periferia’, in Pensamiento de los Confines, University of Buenos Aires, número 27, marzo 2011, pp. 136–156.
* (Co-authored with Luis Rebaza-Soraluz and William Rowe) ‘Introduccción’, in Latin American Studies in the UK, Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Glasgow), volume LXXXIV, Numbers 4–5, pp. 441–445.
* ‘Ciencia y tecnología en El Eternauta’ in Revista Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh, volumen 73, number 221, Oct-Dec 2007, 871-886.
* ‘Arte y desencanto en Elias Ingaramo’ in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies], Liverpool, volume 84, number 3, pp. 335–346, 2007.
* ‘La finalidad literaria’ in Pensamiento de los Confines, University of Buenos Aires/Fondo de Cultura Económica, número 19, diciembre 2006, pp. 112–118.
* ‘De poiesis sive poetica. Notas para una fisiología del lenguaje’ in Aleph. Revista de literatura hispanoamericana, Université de Liège/Catholique de Louvain, número 20, enero de 2006, pp. 81–104.
* ‘Un mundo modernista para la cultura rioplatense’ in Bulletin of Spanish Studies] (Glasgow), volume LXXIX, numbers 2–3, March–May 2002, pp. 193–209.
* ‘El mapa borgeano y sus alrededores’ in INTI. Revista Literaria Hispánica], Providence, Brown University, number 48, 1998, pp. 3–18.
* ‘Juan José Saer interviewed’ in Travesia. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies], [London], volume 4, number 1, June 1995.