Philosophy on the way...

“the beauty of diagrams is when they collapse” // “philosophy is a second chance at life. It gives us the opportunity to add a life on top of our own” // "delulu is solulu" // "falling apart, together" // "Revelry: One cannot play without playing. Cruelty: One can be played without knowing" // “the edge is beautiful”

Camilo Rios

I've been (de)formed in the social sciences, where I have always dwelled as a pariah. Too “theoretical” for sociology, yet not “philosophical” enough for philosophy. In that desert, much of my research work has consisted in turning that ostracism into an opportunity that affords thought a certain freedom. In 2015, I created—and have coordinated since—El Grupete Lector (a platform for collective, horizontal, and free reading in Spanish).

I have taken part in as numerous as exhausting academic events across different countries, and have also succumbed to the productivist imperatives of academia, which has deftly extracted ideas from me in the form of book chapters and articles for duly indexed journals. Among my thematic interests have been and/or are: the transition from disciplinary to control societies; processes of subjectivation in contemporary societies; the ties between technology, art, and subjectivity; and the aesthetics of existence.

I've lived in Berlin since 2018, after nearly 10 years in Buenos Aires and all the previous ones in Colombia, the place assigned to me to be thrown-into-the-world. In Berlin, since mid-2025, I coordinate alongside Chris Droppa The Philosophy Café Project—a venture into collective and collaborative thinking.

Besides attending to my own biological needs, I strive to nourish my pleasures, such that normally there is much more I cannot do than what I can.

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