THE MODEL OF REPRESENTATION AND ITS PRESUMPTION OF UNIVERSALITY

from Deleuzian criticism of the epistemicides demonstrated by Grosfoguel and what philosophy can cease to be.

Abstract

This research looks to expose the critique made by Deleuze in “Difference and Repetition” to the model of representation and its supposed universality in the occidental philosophy and the world, an impossible pretension to the deleuzian perspective, to the concept of epistemicide developed by Grosfoguel in his text “The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities Epistemic Racism/Sexism and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century”, so we can understand the real impact of invalidation that occidental knowledge, in its structure, causes to thinkings, sciences, non western philosophies and even art, so we can perceive the cosmology in Deleuze’s philosophy, and his negation to the traditional western model. To run this path, we will need to expose briefly the model of recognition and representation derived from ideas of Plato, Descartes and Kant, the most widespread founders of all western epistemology, and then, we can go through the deleuzian critique, and its relation with that appointed by Grosfoguel. Finally, we seek to at least glimpse a new possibility of philosophical scope, new futures that may embrace the multiplicity of thinking, without limiting or extermining.