Racialization, raciolinguistics and transracialization: ontological translations, particularist inventions of subjectivity

Abstract

Raciolinguistics inscribes its objects of analysis beyond the racial biocentrism that gave way to linguistic racism, questioning how racialized subjects articulate their own conditions of enunciation and listenability in the current context of the Americas. Raciolinguistics informs us how through language various processes of oppression take place through a system of contrast of being. It also informs us about the political intersection between race and language, recognizing that both processes are mutually constructed. The work concludes by observing that a large part of the oppressions experienced by the multiplicity of forms of the human are none other than those introduced, in large part, by the modern episteme and by the ontological formula bequeathed by classical humanism. From this arise various kinds of oppressions that operate contingently on their human nature. This concern covers a good part of the existential impoverishment that affects multiple groups that live in the Global South. One of the onto-political consequences of the world connector called 'coloniality' is the division of a world, made up of different species, which are classified according to the degree of cultural and ontological relevance that they embody. The understanding of differences is regulated by a scheme of particular modes of subjectivity of an essentialist and individualist order, whose co-specificity is established through a system of subjugation of its existential nature. This particularistic mode of subjectivity is what seeks to destabilize the anti-humanist predicament.