Pensar-Sentir Desde el Indisciplinamiento Aesthesico de las Experiencias Estéticas Latinoamericanas

Abstract

This text examines two central phenomena of modernity/coloniality that establish the basis for analyzing Latin American aesthetic experiences from a decolonial perspective. First, it addresses the invention of the “other” as a mechanism of domination, where race is configured as a tool that separates Europe from the rest of the world and legitimizes hierarchies that subalternize the experiences of the “others”, considered as inferior. Parallel to this subalternization, the second phenomenon emerges: an ontological rupture, a rational, objective and universal knowledge that is constructed from a decontextualized and disembodied perspective. These two separations allow the constitution of hierarchical subjectivities, in which sensitive experiences and representations of otherness are reduced to subordinate imaginaries. Faced with this panorama, Latin American aesthetic experiences emerge not only as cultural expressions, but also as forms of active resistance that challenge the structures of power and knowledge imposed by modernity/coloniality, recovering the sensibility, corporeality and plurality of historically marginalized experiences.