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1854THE DARK GLORY OF CRIMINALS NOTES ON THE ICONIC IMAGINATION OF THE MULTITUDESLaw and Critique (2). 2013.This article explores the relationships between crime, collective responses to it, and the social production of so-called great criminals. It argues that crime, especially sexual and violent crime, produces significant imbalances in individuals habitually subject to instrumental actions, identitarian thinking and positive law. These imbalances are emotional as well as cognitive and, under certain conditions of communication, can generate states of multitude, that is, collective states linked to …Read more
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1208La pregunta por la violencia. 2017.ÍNDICE Prefacio. Pensamientos sobre la violencia. Un libro como un bricolage. Ana Belén Blanco – María Soledad Sánchez | 9 Prólogo. La violencia como “objeto”. Una Aproximación Teórica. Sergio Tonkonoff | 19 I. Violencia, mito y religión. Rubén Dri | 35 II. Violencia, religión y mesianismo: reflexiones desde la filosofía judía. Emmanuel Taub | 53 III. Religión y violencia. Una mirada desde lo implícito y lo relacional. Gustavo A. Ludueña | 65 IV. Escrito en el cuerpo: la pregunta por la violenci…Read more
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1184Gabriel Tarde. A new social physicCurrent Sociology 61 (3). 2013.This article aims to present a reconstruction of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology in order to highlight its current relevance. The author of the article attempts to show that its distinction lies in taking the immense diversity of small social interactions as a starting point for the analysis of both face-to-face situations and large-scale institutions and social processes. Here the social field is described as made up of multiple propagations of desires and beliefs that spread from one individua…Read more
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1045Crime as social excessHistory of the Human Sciences 27 (2): 60-74. 2014.Gabriel Tarde, along with Durkheim and others, set the foundations for what is today a common-sense statement in social science: crime is a social phenomenon. However, the questions about what social is and what kind of social phenomenon crime is remain alive. Tarde’s writings have answers for both of these capital and interdependent problems and serve to renew our view of them. The aim of this article is to reconstruct Tarde’s definition of crime in terms of genus and specific difference, explo…Read more
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626Diffusion or War? Foucault as a Reader of TardeIn From Tarde to Foucault and Deleuze. The Infinitesimal Revolution, Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.The objective of this chapter is to clarify the social theory underlying in Foucault’s genealogy of power/knowledge thanks to a comparison with Tarde’s microsociology. Nietzsche is often identified as the direct (and unique) predecessor of this genealogy, and the habitual criticisms are worried about the intricate relations between Foucault and Marx. These perspectives omit to point to another – and more direct – antecedent of Foucault`s microphysics: the microsociology of Gabriel Tarde. Bio-pow…Read more
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625A new social physic: The sociology of Gabriel Tarde and its legacyCurrent Sociology 61. 2013.This article aims to present a reconstruction of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology in order to highlight its current relevance. The author of the article attempts to show that its distinction lies in taking the immense diversity of small social interactions as a starting point for the analysis of both face-to-face situations and large-scale institutions and social processes. Here the social field is described as made up of multiple propagations of desires and beliefs that spread from one individua…Read more
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488Crime as the Limit of CultureHuman Studies 37 (4): 529-544. 2014.In this article culture is understood as the ensemble of systems of classification, assessment, and interaction that establishes a basic community of values in a given social field. We will argue that this is made possible through the institution of fundamental prohibitions understood as mythical points of closure that set the last frontiers of that community by designating what crime is. Exploring these theses, we will see that criminal transgression may be thought of as the actualization of a …Read more
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378Heterología. La ciencia (imposible) de los residuos violentosRevista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 263-284. 2015.This paper seeks to show that in the work of Bataille there is a general social theory articulated around the notion of the sacred. According to our reading hypothesis, Bataille deepened and extended the movement initiated by Durkheim, who postulated the syntax of the sacred archaic as the most fundamental part of the social grammar. But he did so interpreting the Durkheimnian legacy in the light of a conception of multitude understood as general economy of collective passion. To do this, he bor…Read more
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290From Tarde to Deleuze and Foucault: The Infinitesimal Revolution (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze’s micro-politics and Michel Foucault’s micro-physics have engaged with it. This is articulated in the infinite social multiplicity-invention-imitation-opposition-open system. Guided by infinitist ontology and an epistemology of infinitesimal difference, this paradigm offers a micro-socio-logi…Read more
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241Crime as Limit of CultureHuman Studies A Journal for Philosophy and the Social 2014 (37). 2014.In this article culture is understood as the ensemble of systems of classification, assessment, and interaction that establishes a basic community of values in a given social field. We will argue that this is made possible through the institution of fundamental prohibitions understood as mythical points of closure that set the last frontiers of that community by designating what crime is. Exploring these theses, we will see that criminal transgression may be thought of as the actualization of a …Read more
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227From Tarde to Foucault and Deleuze. The Infinitesimal RevolutionPalgrave Macmillan. 2017.This book posits that a singular paradigm in social theory can be discovered by reconstructing the conceptual grammar of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology and by understanding the ways in which Gilles Deleuze’s micro-politics and Michel Foucault’s micro-physics have engaged with it. This is articulated in the infinite social multiplicity-invention-imitation-opposition-open system. Guided by infinitist ontology and an epistemology of infinitesimal difference, this paradigm offers a micro-socio-logi…Read more
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50Sociology of Infinitesimal Difference. Gabriel Tarde’s HeritageIn From Tarde to Foucault and Deleuze. The Infinitesimal Revolution, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 63-83. 2017.The starting point of Tarde's sociology are individuals. That does not make it a methodological individualism. Instead, it is a sociology of infinitesimal difference which finds in individuals an adequate reference for addressing social life, and that ends up by turning problematic both the notion of individual and society. Imitation is here an elemental form of social relation, but it is not the only one: opposition and invention are elemental social relations as well. Social life, in what it h…Read more
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15Infinito y Teoría social: Tarde como lector de LeibnizGriot 23 (2): 115-129. 2023.El texto analiza los principios fundamentales en torno a los cuales Gabriel Tarde construye su aproximación a la vida social. Esta perspectiva, elaborada hacia fines del siglo XIX, se encuentra notablemente descentrada tanto respecto de los holismos como los individualismos que dominaron las ciencias sociales y las humanidades durante el siglo siguiente. Una de las principales razones de ello es que su punto de partida filosófico no fue Kant, Hegel o Marx, sino Leibniz. Tarde elabora una teoría …Read more
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15Teoría más allá de la theoría. El movimiento posestructuralistaEnfoques 33 (2): 33-58. 2021.El trabajo presenta una lectura general del posestructuralismo y lo describe como unconjunto heterogéneo de teorizaciones acerca de lo social, lo político y lo subjetivoque tuvieron al estructuralismo, al freudismo y al marxismo como referencias complejas.Proponemos caracterizar al posestructuralismo por sus operaciones de “atravesamiento” de estas referencias y distinguir en el desarrollo de sus investigaciones dos grandes etapas: una vinculada a la afirmación de la diferencia radical y la crít…Read more
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10Pensar en líneas, pensar en relaciones. El paradigma de la diferencia infinitesimalPraxis Filosófica 55 91-114. 2022.Esquizo-análisis y micro-política, economía libidinal, microfísica del poder: tales son los nombres Deleuze y Guattari, Lyotard y Foucault asignaron a sus respectivos abordajes del campo socio-histórico y de la subjetividad. En el presente trabajo nos proponemos reconstruir los rasgos principales del enfoque metateórico general que, entendemos, configuran estos abordajes. Dada la escala microscópica en la que se propone trabajar, y dado el rol que en él juega el concepto de línea o flujo, sugeri…Read more
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8Pensar lo social: pluralismo teórico en América Latina (edited book)Clasco Ediciones, Grupo de Estudios sobre Estructuralismo y Postestructuralismo. 2018.
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Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)Researcher
Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Social Science |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |