Creating Worlds Discursive Lines
Decolonial Aesthetics
Colloquium with Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova
Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, M13
5 October 2010, 5.00 - 8.00 pm
Madina Tlostanova:
Contemporary art as decolonial knowledge production in the world of imperial
difference: institutions, artists, phenomena
Walter Mignolo:
(De)coloniality of knowing, being and sensing
The lectures introduce two concepts: de-linking and de-coloniality, (both
reworked by Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova) that implicate a cut within
contemporary processes of capitalist institutionalization, control and
subjugation. De-linking means to de-link ourselves from the unrestrainment of
capital that does not allow just a simple opposition, as it does not function
as it did in the 1970s as a unity of capital and power, but as co-propriety of
capital and power. Therefore, what is necessary is to draw a line of division,
in order to de-link ourselves from capital and power. De-coloniality, on the
other hand, presents a political position that draws a line inside
contemporary processes of coloniality and goes beyond post-colonialism.
Moderation: Marina Gržinić and Ivana Marjanović, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Walter Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance
Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, at
Duke University. Mignolo's work, currently being discussed across disciplines
and internationally, focuses on semiotics, discourse analysis and literary
theory. Since the 1980s, he has written extensively in English and Spanish on
the invention of the Americas, the coloniality of knowledge, and the
political, ethical and epistemological imperative to decolonise knowledge and
knowledge production. His work, which has been translated into Portuguese,
French and Russian, includes The Darker Side of the Renaissance (1994 and
2003, awarded the Katherine Kovacs Singer Prize from the MLA), Local
Histories/Global Designs (2000) and The Idea of Latin America (2005, awarded
the Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.) His
forthcoming book, The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures,
Decolonial Options is the third of a trilogy, together with The Darker Side of
the Renaissance and Local Histories/Global Designs.
Madina Tlostanova is professor of History of Philosophy at Peoples' Friendship
University of Russia. She has authored over 130 articles many of which were
published in Europe and the US, four books in Russian – Multicultural
Discourse and US Fiction of the Late 20th Century (Moscow, 2000), Living
Never; Writing from Nowhere: Post-soviet Literature and the Aesthetics of
Transculturation (Moscow, 2004), From the Philosophy of Multiculturalism to
the Philosophy of Trans-culturation (New York, 2008), Decolonial Gender
Epistemologies (Moscow, 2009) and two in English – A Janus-Faced Empire. Notes
on the Russian Empire in Modernity Written from the Border (Moscow, 2003) and
The Sublime of Globalization? Sketches on Trans-cultural Subjectivity and
Aesthetics (Moscow, 2005).
Event organized in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the
Post-conceptual Art Practices (PCAP) Class.
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Forthcoming
Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris) / Stefan Nowotny (eipcp, Vienna):
"Das politische Ereignis"
12 October 2010, 19.00, Shedhalle Zürich
(Inventions. A Series of Double Lectures Actualising Post-structuralist
Theories)
[http://www.zhdk.ch/index.php?id=12058][3]
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