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For anyone familiar with the history of ideas in Cuba, the fact that a philosophical movement centered on the study of complexity has become consolidated must come as a surprise. In contrast to other trends of thought that have made their way to the island, the studies of complexity have created a space for autonomy, self-management, visibility, difference and resistance.
For those who are truly familiar with the history of ideas in Cuba, it will not be difficult to establish a recursive link between this movement and the tradition of Cuban philosophical thought that reached its apex in the 1940s and 1950s.
This philosophical tradition was eclipsed with the triumph of the revolution and the installation of Marxism as its philosophy and political practice. The 1940s and 1950s were Cuba’s most significant period, not only philosophically but culturally, in general. It is the time when we can speak of a true feeling of authenticity, so much so that the works of Cuban thinkers were discussed with the best of contemporary thought worldwide, both on the scientific and philosophical levels.
The Cátedra para el Estudio de la Complejidad (Center for Studies in Complexity Theory) is indebted to this tradition, and in this regard, the Cátedra’s complete body of work constitutes a space of pluralism that seeks to establish a philosophical practice that is not subject to dictates and whose critical vocation is its articulating axis.
____________________________________________ Antonio Correa Iglesias, PhD, is a professor of Philosophy, Epistemology, Aesthetics and Cognition Science at the University of Art in Havana, Cuba. He is the Vice Dean of the Fine Arts Faculty there. Currently, he is studying under a fellowship at Alanus University, Bonn, Germany, where he is the International Professor of the SenseLab Workshop. He will be visiting Santa Fe and the Institute for Analytic Journalism and the Santa Fe Complex April 5-9, 2011.
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