This commentary on Rossana Reguillo's article "Essays on the abyss: politics of the gaze, violence, technopolitics" analyzes the author's research on the ways of looking at violence and technopolitics in the history of anthropology and other social sciences in Mexico. How to combine diverse strategies to capture complexity? It also deals with the role of affects and electronic corporations in the segmentation and "totalizations" of material or symbolic goods and political opinions, as well as when they try to manage diversity.

Lhe relocation of anthropological knowledge in the globalizing process, which has made most nations and ethnic groups interdependent, is one of the reasons why anthropology, as a knowledge devoted to the local, has lost relevance in recent decades. Lins Ribeiro rightly mentions other reasons: competition with other disciplines, hyperspecialization, changes in the culture/nature relationship, anti-intellectualism (partly due to the "empire of the screens" and the information vertigo caused by the Internet). The text points out some of the faults of anthropology itself: "the culture of auditing and productivism" associated with the business model with which academic life is reorganized, as well as "the absence of professors" from public debates.