Abstract

Although the post of human development has been taken by modern science for centuries, the current uncertainty has brought with it the possibility of situating ourselves in other epistemes. Even though science complicit with capital limits our horizon of possibilities, making it “easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” from the south we prefer to embrace the idea of Sousa Santos, stating that although it is difficult to imagine the end of capitalism, it is also difficult to imagine that capitalism has no end. To expand the fertile grounds for speculation, we will descend to the maraña, a category that allows us to recognise the density of relationships in which we find ourselves and to look for new forms of navigation that take us out of the Anthropocene. We propose as myth of origin of modern epistemology the encounter of Alexander the Great with the Gordian Knot. This apparently distant and minuscule historical event allows us to trace the logics of production of the knowledge-power that organise and perpetuate our current planetary crisis. Anthropo- and Euro-centric design, which insists on strategically forgetting the more-than-human and the other-than-Western, as enterprise of world control is today enmarañado and enmarañándose. If we recognise ourselves in the maraña, we will be closer to conceiving a cosmos in which the trajectories of power are slowed down.