Decolonial Aesthetics

Miguel Gualdron Ramirez is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. His research and teaching explore the intersection of Latin American/Africana decolonial philosophy in the Americas and how this entanglement contributes to understanding gender-race constructions under coloniality, as well as the relations between colonized communities across the continent. The main sources for these investigations are political and aesthetic theories and practices that critique colonial forms of self-understanding and expression and contribute to new epistemologies of resistance.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aquatic Critiques 1. Displacements and Hauntings of the Visible: Backgrounds, Mirrors, and Camera Lenses Against the Coloniality of Images 2. Shattering the Mirror: Submersive Aesthetics of Listening as Critique of the Coloniality of Sense Part II: Subterranean Decolonial Aesthetics 3. Dissolving Aesthetics in Life: Anticolonial Possibilities of an Aesthetics of the Multitude 4. Sedimentations of Silence and Opacity: Fostering Subterranean Circulations of Sense 5. Unearthing an Underground Tongue: Geographies of Coalition and Travel as Transversality Notes Bibliography Index