Following the Trail: Drawing Lines on the Ground

Abstract

This article will try to inquire into the question of nature and environmental problems from the point of view of what we will call a ground philosophy. We’ll undertake this task through the proposals of a series of contemporary authors who have been concerned, to different degrees and in very different ways, with the problem of land or ground: Donna Haraway, Tim Ingold and Bruno Latour . For this, we will use a series of elements that we will extract from the visual and tactile experience of the Nazca Lines, a legacy of our Amerindian past in the Peruvian desert. It will be divided into three parts, each one dedicated to explaining certain reflections that can be linked to a philosophy such as the one we intend to mention. The approach will prioritize the interlocks between them and the development of elements that allow us to interweave their respective theories.