Re-visiones (E-Journal)
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Bringing clues from the future into the present (in the shape of a book, a lunch or a theatre play)
No full textConversation with Stavros Stavrides (25/09/17)Eliana Ott
Del habla a la escritura, de la escritura al habla. Una poética de la oralidad tras cinco años de investigación del Seminario Euraca
No full textEn este artículo se analizan algunas estrategias compositivas del habla escenificada por dos conocidas películas españolas producidas hacia el final de la Transición (Navajeros y Deprisa, deprisa). A partir de la comparación de cómo ambos films construyen diferentemente la representación del habla de unos personajes en el guión escrito y la performance oral de los intérpretes sobre dicho guión, y atendiendo al intervalo que se abre en el juego entre ambas instancias, se reflexiona sobre algunas ideas de la lengua, la escritura y la oralidad que, de hecho, colaboran en la producción o problematización de las representaciones estereotipadas y pasivizantes de subjetividades sociohistóricas como la de los jóvenes excluidos del sistema económico y cultural desarrollista a la que puedan referirse ambas películas, y desde ahí, se pregunta sobre una poética más proclive a propiciar la agencia lingüística de cualquier sujeto en tanto que hablante. Este texto formaliza como artículo algunas ideas discutidas en el marco del Seminario Euraca, una investigación colectiva en lenguas y (genealogías de la) crisis en marcha en Madrid desde noviembre de 2012
Becoming Bird: Notes on Colonial and Planetary Memory
No full textThe following essay seeks to think of the notion of the creative act as an interruption in colonial epistemology, through the analysis of the Guatemalan saint-god Maximón. This colonial entity is proposed as a rare cultural object, which challenges any notion of a fixed ethnic identity, in the context of the historical racialization of Guatemalan society. The essay therefore proposes, by going beyond an orthodox anthropological approach, that this saint-god be understood as living material memory, which can become political only in the performativity of its complex movement and time
El cercamiento neoliberal de la representación La intensificación del punto ciego de la modernidad: la colonialidad
No full textEl presente ensayo es un intento por elucidar el “punto ciego” de la representación en relación a la colonialidad y al double bind de la modernidad, la cual, al erigirse sobre la destrucción de la alteridad y la naturaleza, esconde el punto ciego de la colonialidad, que se ha hecho hábito. Articulando la noción de “representación fascista”, este ensayo busca problematizar la especificidad cultural de las “luchas medioambientales” o las luchas de sobrevivencia de los pueblos indígenas en México, como resultado del hábito de la colonialidad. Es necesario, se concluye, establecer lazos de solidaridad más allá de la lucha política basada en esencialismos culturales y de la idea liberal que los pueblos indígenas están luchando contra el calentamiento global, y tomar responsabilidad del hecho que los privilegios de las poblaciones urbanas se basan en la destrucción de los comunes y de los pueblos originarios
Human animal song
No full textPublicado originalmente en e-flux journal 83 2017 y traducido para Re-visiones n.7http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/142119/human-animal-song
Campus in Camps. Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of Un-learning.
No full textThe paper addresses the topic of decolonial pedagogies in the Global South analyzing Campus in Camps, an educational program founded in 2012 by Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal that activates critical communal learning within the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. The program reflects on refugee camps which are in a process of social and spatial transformation. The paper raises two main questions: how does the program of Campus in Camps decolonize methodologies of knowledge construction about the camp life? How does it activate processes of embodied pedagogy where knowledge is grounded in action and emerges as a group effort accommodating subjects born from the interaction among participants, tutors and the broader social context? The article will first focus on the problematic of conceivingthe camp as a site of history and knowledge. Secondly it will dig into the pedagogical strategies, research methodologies and participatory design methods enacted in order to “decolonize knowledge” through exercises of collective un-learning
The Status of Epistemological Superiority in the Medical Landscape of South Africa
No full textThe article begins with sketching out narratives around indigenous medicine in South Africa and around its ostensible counterpart ‘modern’, Western medicine. As the former was officially tried to be kept in check by limiting it to its traditional roots, the dissection of the concept of tradition is necessary in order to understand if 'tradition' is really as static as is often assumed. The results clarify that the difference between 'traditional' South African knowledge and 'scientific' Western knowledge is rather a question of narrative than of actual facts. Comparing the legal situation of healers during colonialism and apartheid in South Africa brings to light that the ostensible difference between Western and traditional medicine is of a constructed nature rooted in the different legal treatment of these ways of healing.The second part of the essay assesses whether the prevailing epistemological superiority of Western medicine during colonialism and apartheid has vanished over time. Doing so requires taking a close look at who is able to produce knowledge, how it can be produced and secured. Knowledge production concepts such as hybridity and creolisation are closely examined, delineated and evaluated. This is necessary to critically discuss the ways in which 'traditional' knowledge is treated by the state and to what extent the existing forms of cooperation between the two medical approaches can be regarded as on eye-level
The Neoliberal Foreclosure of Representation and the Habit of Coloniality
No full textThe present essay is an attempt to elucidate the “blind spot” in representation in relationship to coloniality and modernity. The latter, as it is based on the destruction of alterity and of nature, hides the habit of coloniality that normalizes such destruction. Articulating the notion of “fascism in representation” in current aesthetic and political practices, in this essay I seek to problematize the cultural specificities of “environmental struggles” or the struggles for survival of indigenous peoples in Mexico as a result of the habit of coloniality. It is urgent, I conclude, to take responsibility for the fact that the privileges of westernized urban and modern populations are based on the destruction of the commons and of originary peoples
Devenir Ave: Notas sobre Memoria Colonial
No full textEl siguiente ensayo busca pensar en la noción de acto creativo como interrupción de la epistemología colonial, a través del análisis del santo-dios guatemalteco Maximón. Esta entidad colonial es propuesta como un raro objeto cultural, el cual tensa cualquier noción de una identidad étnica fija, en el contexto de las relaciones históricas de racializacion de la sociedad guatemalteca. El ensayo propone por lo tanto, mas que un abordaje antropológico ortodoxo, entenderlo como memoria material viva, que deviene política, solo en la performatividad de su movimiento y tiempo complejo
Conversation with Aura Cumes on Maya epistemology, postcolonial theory and the struggle for identity
No full textConversation with Aura Cumes on Maya epistemology, postcolonial theory and the struggle for identity Aura Cumes, (Kaqchikel Maya Resarcher from Guatemala)María Iñigo (Universidad Oberta de Catalunya