Memory, ethics and cordiality. Between remembering and seeing-giving

Abstract

This article consists of three sections whose intersectionality is achieved through the articulations between memory, ethics and cordiality, considering the space between cosmovisions and cosmoauditions and trying to go beyond them through by approaching a poetics of life. The first section deals with memory and truth based on two periods: the first, by an Iberian-Chilean worldview that relates the perspectives of María Zambrano, Roberto Matta, Hugo Zemelman and Humberto Maturana; and the second, around the cosmoaudiovision constituted by the contributions of Raquel Gutiérrez and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, who rhythmically and imaginatively round off this worldview and mark the transition to the next moment of this text. A second cosmoaudiovisual section starts from the desire to conceive and act emphasizing the value of people and whose concretion resulted in a dialogue initiated through interviews and conversations with members of the family of Martina Covarrubias and her children, based on their memories. Finally, the third section is devoted to cordiality, assuming the challenge of placing life and ethics, which springs up in its awakening, as the matrix of cosmovisions, cosmoauditions and other cosmic forms around touch, smell, taste and enjoyment, agreeing on the idea that ethical expertise is not dissociated from a poetic one with, for and from life.