“Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language as a whole, taking an individual work in […]
Performing Palpable Impact
There seems a parallel between Mignolo’s “Delinking” (the uncoupling of the western narrative of history from the narrative of colonialism) and Cathy Davidson’s “New Education.” Across eight chapters, Davidson tracks the history of the University system and its operational tentacles (course specialization, admissions processes, tuition fees, grading systems, etc.). She counters these educational traditions by […]
The ghost refrain.
Can we be presente in masks? At first it seems impossible. Within the mask not only the face but the heart is encased, one is separate and separated through concealment. Can there be a heartening beneath the hardness of stoicism? Can you be one with a mask (to be me, I have to walk and […]
Proposal: Being With
15 October 2018 Decolonial Theories & Practices Professor Diana Taylor Group Members: Susana Costa Amaral, Lee Xie, Ricardo Duarte Filho, Annie Seminara, Kristen Holfeuer Proposal: Being With Introduction A giant white sheet floats around the city. The fabric is punctuated by heads from the participants of this collective performance. Their bodies are hidden under the […]
Many Responses
Zapatistas, insurgents, use Sp’ijilal O’tan (knowledges and epistemologies of the heart) as a way to “hearten ourselves” and rebel against hegemonic structures of knowledge and the capitalist hydra. I wonder if Intzin, as an academic who employs culturally-developed epistemologies, feels a division between his academic and community life or if his use of culturally-developed epistemologies […]
différance
Trying to examine the stitching of Cusicanqui’s text is maddening. Closing in on the detail of one stitch, for example the dyad chi’ixi-chhixi, I lose track of the of the greater weave. The only way is to move in and out, view the taypi from nearer and farther, in endless alternations of perspective. The wak’as […]
18. “to think clearly–that is, dangerously”
For this response I would like to consider the following quotation: “In other words, the essential thing here is to see clearly, to think clearly–that is, dangerously–and to answer clearly the innocent first question: what fundamentally is colonization?” (). We’ve read that Augusto Boal, who actualized and embodied Freire’s pedagogy in his “Theatre of the Oppressed”, […]