“Affective, Love. Speculative, Science.”

(The Cannibalist Manifesto, Oswald de Andrade)

The poetry of these lines toward the end of the Cannibalist Manifesto identifies a major binary in the process of colonization, and our understanding of it. The creation of religious speculative judgement and sciences in modernity cause colonialism to enter into the psychology of the colonized individual and their healing communities, making it more difficult for them to organize and follow their own traditions.

How do we go from clothed, Freudian individuals back to our spirit, the Love and light within us, and vice versa? What paradigms control this ability for us to colonize ourselves and recolonize ourselves, and slightly decolonize ourselves at times? To eat another, or from another; or on someone’s table, to colonize, shame, and punish their sexuality, the way they adorn their land and themselves, even the way that they speak, this is truly the totalizing genocide ruling our modern identities. The continuous cannibalistic affect of speculating instead of loving, policing and judging instead of hearing, listening, walking with.

Works Cited:

Oswald de Andrade (1999) The Cannibalist manifesto, , 13:46, 92-95, DOI: 10.1080/09528829908576784