THE WORLD OF LIFE AND THE FORMATION OF MODERNITY 4.1 MODERNITY AND THE MODERNIZATION OF THE WORLD OF HUMAN AND NATURAL LIFE IN LATIN AMERICA

Several authors reflect on whether there is an untouched non-human nature outside the human lifeworld66. Or if wild nature is also within humanity, as its first foundation, being simultaneously human beings and living social animals67, or whether the human being and the natural lifeworld are simply a machine-like mechanism68, with the corollary that the The human lifeworld, hitherto named the Society, could also be treated as a mechanical mechanism. Who, how and for what purpose are these assumptions of naturalness or universal humanity constructed? In this thesis it is believed that the human and natural world of life make one another in a permanent contradiction, which cannot be resolved only by transforming it using the expedients of socio-technical and domesticity networks that frame the structural forms of the world in the region. . The individual human being struggles with the beast within him. The city lives in eternal opposition to the forests, and civilizations are opposed, according to their greater or lesser roots, to identities based on the experience of life, of the living. It will be the utopian fate of critical political ecology to fight on the natural and human fronts as if it were in a city besieged from without by a predator and besieged from within by hunger, disease and human conflict. In order to preserve both the natural world [nature] and the human world [humanity] from technical homogenizing and rational invasion69. How does this conflict affect biodiversity objects and discourses?