"Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents"

Imagem: Taus Makhacheva, Delinking, 2011, Sharjah Biennial 11. Laura Bulian Gallery e Sharjah Art Foundation

Walter Mignolo, investigador, semiótico e escritor, presentemente associado à Duke University, fala sobre o conceito de "decolonial aesthetics" no seu trabalho, em entrevista a Contemporary and: 

What is crucial to keep in mind is that “coloniality” and all the concepts we have introduced since then are concepts whose point of origination is not in Europe but in “the Third World.” That means that all these concepts emerge from the experience of coloniality in the Americas. Entangled with modernity to be sure, but no longer “applying” European-born categories to “understand” colonial legacies. On the contrary, we have converted Europe into a domain of analysis rather than a provider of “cultural and epistemic resources.”

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