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The World is Dead. Long Live the World.

Elaine Gan

  Species extinctions are not new. Scientists say that evolution is relentless and ecology is incredibly dynamic: species have always been disappearing and emerging across multiple scales of time and place. Mass extinctions (i.e., cataclysms that wipe out three-quarters of … Continue reading “The World is Dead. Long Live the World.”

March 8, 2015 | Features

The Decolonial AestheSis Dossier

Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vazquez

In this dossier we look at the geopolitics of sensing, knowing and believing that have been at play in the variegated versions of the project decolonial aestheSis. The participants are intellectuals, curators and artist and many of them all at … Continue reading “The Decolonial AestheSis Dossier”

July 15, 2013 | Features

Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics

alanna lockward

  The conceptualization of decolonial aesthetics[i] is fairly recent, however its points of departure — the epistemic shifts that have been challenging coloniality in the artistic and cultural practices of the Global South — are as old as the colonial … Continue reading “Black Europe Body Politics: Towards an Afropean Decolonial Aesthetics”

July 15, 2013 | Features

Decolonial AestheSis in Eastern Europe: Potential Paths of Liberation

ovidiu tichindeleanu

The postcommunist transition has been characterized in Eastern Europe by the return and rearticulation of capitalism and coloniality in this region of the world. Seen from Eastern Europe, the postcommunist transition can be understood as the top-to-bottom integration of East … Continue reading “Decolonial AestheSis in Eastern Europe: Potential Paths of Liberation”

July 15, 2013 | Features

Decolonial AestheSis at the 11th Havana Biennial

raul moarquech ferrera balanquet and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo

  The Biennial Statement The written curatorial statement from the organizing committee of the 11th Havana Biennial arrived via email the same day that we were preparing a dossier for the Romanian magazine IDEA. As we put together a brief … Continue reading “Decolonial AestheSis at the 11th Havana Biennial”

July 15, 2013 | Features

What/Where is "Decolonial Asia"?

hong an truong, Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Guo-Juin Hong

LOOKING BACK — The Decolonial Aesthetics Exhibition at Duke University   The Decolonial Aesthetics Exhibition (May 4-June 5, 2011) at Duke University’s Fredric Jameson Gallery and The Nasher Museum of Art, among other venues, curated installations by scholar-artists Guo-Juin Hong … Continue reading “What/Where is "Decolonial Asia"?”

July 15, 2013 | Features

Decolonial Aesthesis: From Singapore, To Cambridge, To Duke University

Walter Mignolo and Michelle K.

I always ask my students, grad and undergraduate, for the mid-term “exam”, to write a letter to whomever they wish. It should be an educated person who is a little bit familiar with the topic, or not necessarily. The question … Continue reading “Decolonial Aesthesis: From Singapore, To Cambridge, To Duke University”

July 15, 2013 | Features

Sensing Distance: The Time and Space of Contemporary War

caren kaplan

  What’s left to be said about time or space or war? Let’s face it — in the piles of books and papers written on violence in modernity, on time-space compression, on spatialization vs. temporalization, on the militarization of everyday … Continue reading “Sensing Distance: The Time and Space of Contemporary War”

June 17, 2013 | Features

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