Writing the Real: From the Ontological Turn to the Practical Turn

Abstract

Currently, there are numerous questions and discussions surrounding the real: What is real? Is the real lost? How does the real affect us? Speculative realism, capitalist realism, and various ontological and philosophical realisms attempt to move beyond the linguistic turn to directly address the real. The challenge is that they can quickly become theoretical approaches without consequences, failing to produce any real transformation. Therefore, the specific inquiry in this writing revolves around the problem of transmission and effective formation: Can we transmit the real? And more specifically, since my answer is affirmative: Can we write the real? I attempt to provide some historical coordinates on how I arrived at formulating this question, and the affirmative modulation of its response.