The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. Walter Benjamin E quando ouvir o silêncio sorridente de São Paulo diante da chacina (…) Pense no Haiti O Haiti é aqui Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil – Haiti This year, while hitchhiking between two […]
whose footprints are on the American constitution?
As I begin reading Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics, I stop after reading the Lamba proverb from Zambia he uses to begin the essay: “Wa syo’ lukasa pebwe Umwime wa pita” I make an anatomical link with the essay by Aníbal Quijano’s essay, Coloniality of Power, Eurocentricism, and Latin America and I remember the two most powerful […]
Atravessar o trauma, atravessar as polaridades
A invenção da modernidade talvez seja um dos mais bárbaros/sofisticados acontecimentos da experiência humana no que chamamos Terra. É sempre pertinente perceber como na maioria das colônias (falo a partir da minha experiência no Brasil/América Latina) foi construído um sentimento de auto-inferioridade e impotência diante de uma cultura ‘maior/melhor’, ‘erudita’, oficial. No Rio de Janeiro […]
Life, death and agency under (neo)colonial capitalist machine
In Aníbal Quijano’s surgical analysis on the “coloniality of power” and its implications for the construction of the idea of race within a Eurocentric view, the author claims that racial differentiation arises intersected with hierarchical structures of production and labor division under capitalism, as well as determinant for the social and cultural relations in the […]
blogging of the oppressed , by Mira mother of judah
“teatro do oprimido pdf” on google said Ricardo, when I asked him where to find original un-translated copies of the two authors we had assigned for Monday. “do?” “yes, do” I don’t speak Portuguese yet, but in my practice of learning language to make clear what translation blurs and erases in academia, the Universe is […]
In societies whose power structure leads to the domain of consciousness, the dominant pedagogy is the pedagogy of the ruling classes. The methods of oppression will never serve the freedom of the oppressed, thus the oppressed needs to learn and claim their own words in order to decode oppression and build another social and political reality.
Este parece ser o principal argumento nas obras de Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, Aimé Césaire e Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Em diferentes contextos, os autores reivindicam condições para que os sujeitos oprimidos e colonizados descubram-se reflexivamente, conquistando-se como sujeitos de seu próprio destino histórico e aprendendo a ser o autor e o testemunho de sua própria […]
Hello world!
“The scenario of discovery is theatrical indeed.” (Taylor 56) This quote by Diana Taylor has been the common thread for the past four readings. From Columbus’s first letter, to Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s performance piece called Two Undiscovered Amerindians; the question of “what does it mean to discover,” plays a huge role in these […]