South-South critical decolonial thought, praxis and aesthetics

The era of the world that still governs us was born from the violent invasion of the Americas. Its constitution articulated modernity, colonization, capitalism, slavery, racialization, and geneticization. The objective of CLACSO Working Group on Critical South-South Decolonial Thought, Praxis and Aesthetics It involves analyzing this interrelation and the historical specificities it has expressed at various stages. Faced with reactionary dystopias, this Working Group opts for the gesture of epistemic disobedience (Mignolo, 2010), which extends to aesthetic disobedience and proposals for healing the colonial wound from subversive aesthetics (Anzaldúa, 2021). Through artistic, community, and curatorial practices, decolonial aesthetics promotes other forms of sensibility that emerge from Indigenous, Afro-descendant, feminist, and popular knowledge, highlighting embodied memory, territoriality, and reciprocity with the non-human. It proposes a shift from the center to the margins, recognizing the epistemic and political power of these aesthetics to reconfigure the relationships between art, history, and power, and to imagine worlds where creation becomes an act of resistance and reparation. Our proposal not only proclaims itself as situated thought and praxis but also uncovers a reality in which epistemic injustice expresses a global injustice, the distribution not only of the sensible but also of the material.

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