pdf Penser (dans) la terre. Mariátegui et la géophilosophie*

This article attempts to show how the work of Peruvian Marxist intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui may be considered as a “geophilosophical” one, as well as Mariátegui himself as a thinker of “geophilosophy”, as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari had defined this notion in his last work written together: What is philosophy? Taking as a point of departure Mariátegui’s famous Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, where he defines “the problem of the indigenous” as one concerning directly “the problem of the earth”, it is shown how the way Mariátegui addresses these questions, and others such as the relationship between European and Latin American societies, turns out to resemble quite enough to the way in which Deleuze and Guattari had define philosophy as geophilosophy. Highlighting the common ground that Nietzsche and Marx’s philosophies plays in both Mariátegui and Deleuze and Guattari’s approaches, it is argued how notions such as deterritorialization and reterritorialization, nomadism, as well as elements from Mariátegui’s work, may be read together to reconsider not only traditional postcolonial issues such as identity and colonialism, but also theoretical- political problems such as revolution and utopia.