Dicoré

Abstract

This article explores the Ayoreo notion of dicoré, a spectral figure that inhabits the thresholds between human and non-human worlds and challenges the ontological regimes of presence that underlie Western metaphysics. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2014 in the Tiogai village, the analysis connects Ayoreo thought to contemporary discussions on spectrality, xenology, and cosmopolitics—particularly through the works of Hilan Bensusan, Jacques Derrida, and Fabián Ludueña-Romandini. Far from being a merely exotic cosmological element, dicoré emerges as a conceptual operator that unsettles classical ontological foundations by introducing a politics of rupture, disjunction, and incommensurability. The essay calls for a reconfiguration of philosophy itself, through a radical engagement with modes of existence that resist assimilation into regimes of presence and intelligibility.