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Science and religion: toward a micropolitics of subjectivation

This text is the result of the introduction of its author into a new philosophical Plane of Immanence, using new concepts via a new way of thinking, different from the binary, and still hegemonic, one. Any religion constitutes a form of knowledge (theology), and, as such, one deals with the historical stratification of knowledge, norms, and practices (that fold themselves in the interior of individuals, generating the construction of an individual or collective Existential Territory), which would be of a transcendent nature; that is to say, a belief in a world beyond ours. Contemporary thought considers the indissociability of the relation Knowledge/Power as well as the processes of subjectivation. This text is based in the conceptual triad of Immanence: Knowledge, Power, and Subjectivation. However, one discovers a certain affinity of Science with Technology (the "Science" of transcendental, spiritual powers), which coexist with and barely contest the "tyranny" of the State apparatus of the material powers of today's "Society of Control". Differently, atheism characterizes itself by its belief (faith) in Immanence and its evidencing of an Ethics ("vision of the world") as a political attitude aiming at emancipation from existent social control.

Stratification; Existential Territory; Knowledge; Fold; Subjectivation


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