Oneself as a crowd self-reconciliation

Abstract

This article will be a multi-voiced conversation about self-reconciliation. Making the necessary condition, prior to that reconciliation, the conflicts that arise through the narration of one’s own life and the construction of identity, we will approach a critique of coherence as a misguided principle for self-recognition. Through the conceptions of the subject presented by Jean-Luc Nancy in        What is a Subject?, Michel Serres in Variations on the Body, and Katia Mandoki in Everyday Aesthetics: prosaics, the play on culture and social identities where the complex sensitive and discursive networks surrounding the body are highlighted, despite the multitude of situations in which it is immersed, and the infinite number of roles it can fulfill, it wants—or needs—to recognize itself as an “I.” What alternatives can we find to replace the perhaps cultural demand for coherence as the guiding thread of our lives and narratives? This is the question we will attempt to bring to the table, without pretensions of definitive answers or systematizations. Instead, it will be a conversation, among the philosophical voices of the aforementioned authors, the poetic voices of verses by José Manuel Arango, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the voice of my own inhabiting body, which will act as a mediator in the always complicated terrain of speaking about oneself.