"The silence that nobody heard"

FOR A NON-ANTHROPOCENTRIC ONTOLOGY

Abstract

From a series of paintings by the artist Federico Guerreros entitled “The silence that nobody heard”, we make some considerations about the – epistemological and ontological – problem of the possibility of access to – and description of – reality beyond subject, consciousness and language. After a historical overview of the metaphysics of modern subjectivity and the contemporary linguistic turn, we introduce some important concepts of the so-called ontological turn that seeks to overcome Kantian embargoes and re-establish new possibilities for the elaboration of contemporary ontologies and metaphysics. Finally, we resorted to MD Magno's psychoanalytic mystique and some eastern traditions to think about possibilities of listening to silence as a basis for a non-anthropocentric ontology.