Interculturalizar la sociedad

From a reflection on the scope of an emergent intercultural thinking of the arts, this chapter explores the philosophical, epistemological and semiotic fundamentals of an artistic thinking of interculturality which might lead us from an intercultural to an intervital project. The first task is to dismantle the devices of representation and to survey the power of other, non-representational modalities of language in the denaturalization of the order established by the distribution of the sensible. The space of education is considered the privileged place to advance the project of interculturalization of society by opening such space to so-far invisible subjects as a prerequisite to any epistemic and semiotic pluralism. To this end, the space of education must build a continuity between the world of society and the world of nature by pedagogizing social praxis and territories as a matrix of signification. While the concept of territory provides the basis for the sensorial rooting of practices necessary to go beyond the representative modality of languages, it sets out the task of constructing intercultural territories based on an ecology of practices and a cosmo-politics that challenges the common sense by acknowledging the agency of subjects so far invisibilized by the distribution of the sensible—a bio-political distribution—with whom human beings need to communicate through a radical polylog that makes use of different languages and modalities of sensorial, kinesthetic, multimodal and ritual nature such as those modeled by the arts.