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Vistas of Modernity. Decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary
Vistas of Modernity is a new title in a series of essays commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund.
Edited by Rosa te Velde. Foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.
We are living in a time of polarization. Cultural and educational institutions are confronted with the responsibility to provide tools and spaces for critical reflection, for engagement, and, more fundamentally, for meeting and recognizing each other in our differences. In this decolonial essay Rolando Vázquez introduces his critique which offers an option for thinking and doing beyond the dominant paradigms. It provides a critical analysis of modernity understood broadly as the western project of civilization, while it seeks to overcome the dominion of western epistemology and aesthetics and their embedded eurocentrism and anthropocentrism.
Importantly for decolonial thought we are all located in relation to the colonial difference that structures our modern/colonial order. It is only from an awareness of our positioned realities that we can enter in relation with each-other, that we can listen to each-other and learn each-other.
Edited by Rosa te Velde. Foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.
We are living in a time of polarization. Cultural and educational institutions are confronted with the responsibility to provide tools and spaces for critical reflection, for engagement, and, more fundamentally, for meeting and recognizing each other in our differences. In this decolonial essay Rolando Vázquez introduces his critique which offers an option for thinking and doing beyond the dominant paradigms. It provides a critical analysis of modernity understood broadly as the western project of civilization, while it seeks to overcome the dominion of western epistemology and aesthetics and their embedded eurocentrism and anthropocentrism.
Importantly for decolonial thought we are all located in relation to the colonial difference that structures our modern/colonial order. It is only from an awareness of our positioned realities that we can enter in relation with each-other, that we can listen to each-other and learn each-other.
184 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2020
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August 5, 2021
10/5
Terminologie en methodes voor dekolonisatie in de kunsten aan de hand van historische postkaarten en hedendaagse praktijken. Veel dingen om praktisch en inhoudelijk mee te nemen, vooral de concepten die Vázquez introduceert.
Terminologie en methodes voor dekolonisatie in de kunsten aan de hand van historische postkaarten en hedendaagse praktijken. Veel dingen om praktisch en inhoudelijk mee te nemen, vooral de concepten die Vázquez introduceert.
January 16, 2023
“We ask whether we can live an ethical life in a world in which our wellbeing is dependent on the suffering of others and on the wasting away of earth” (p.143).
“… there is no metropolis without the colony, there is no whiteness without racialisation, no patriarchy without gender oppression, no modernity without coloniality. (…) The act of being itself becomes the enactment of the colonial difference as aesthetics. Aesthetics designates modernity’s control over representation and over the field of experience of world-historical reality” (p.5)
“Decoloniality is not about the dream of the contemporaneity; it is not about innovation or being more radical. It is about dealing with the colonial wound and recognising where we are standing in relation to that colonial wound, how are we implicated in it, how it is crossing us, and in this manner, it is a move against the loss of a future” (p.149).
“… there is no metropolis without the colony, there is no whiteness without racialisation, no patriarchy without gender oppression, no modernity without coloniality. (…) The act of being itself becomes the enactment of the colonial difference as aesthetics. Aesthetics designates modernity’s control over representation and over the field of experience of world-historical reality” (p.5)
“Decoloniality is not about the dream of the contemporaneity; it is not about innovation or being more radical. It is about dealing with the colonial wound and recognising where we are standing in relation to that colonial wound, how are we implicated in it, how it is crossing us, and in this manner, it is a move against the loss of a future” (p.149).
November 22, 2023
O colonizare a gindirii.
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