Juan Manuel Garrido

Detectors are remarkable tools. We design and use them not to do things with them but to make things do something, namely, to appear. Detectors make things cause their manifestation. Things’ manifestation depends on how these tools materialize their physical and mathematical properties, the operations they carry out, and the specific circumstances of their application. Rather than fading away during use like tools in daily life, detectors must maintain their objective presence throughout the observation process, actively structuring both phenomena and our ability to experience them. The present essay explores how detection technologies engineer our perception and make things come to the fore.

En este ensayo se examina de manera crítica el desarrollo de la filosofía analítica y, en particular, de la filosofía analítica latinoamericana. Se propone que esta última adopte un giro político y uno pedagógico con el fin de recuperar su espíritu original y reconectarse con la tradición intelectual latinoamericana. This essay is a critical examination of the development of analytic philosophy and, in particular, of Latin American analytic philosophy. It is argued that the latter ought to adopt a political and pedagogical turn in order to recover its original spirit and to be reconnected to Latin American intelectual tradition