Reconstitución epistémica/estética: la aesthesis decolonial una década después
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Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
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Mi argumento conjuga dos instancias decoloniales. La primera es la re-orientación decolonial introducida por Aníbal Quijano (en 1990) en el mero cierre de la Guerra Fría. En los 80s era ya evidente que los objetivos de la descolonización no podrían lograrse por medio de la fundación de Estados nacionales. Quijano intuyó que la colonialidad del poder era un estructura invisible y subyacente de la civilización occidental, oculta bajo las promesas vertidas en nombre de la modernidad. Para Quijano la tarea decolonial era, en primer lugar, desprendernos de la colonialidad del poder y, en segundo lugar, engancharnos en la reconstitución epistemológica. La segunda instancia, 20 años después, fue la introducción de reflexiones decoloniales en el marco de la colonialidad del poder de la restitución estética. En los procesos de avanzar en la reconstitución epistemológica y estética, rescatamos el concepto de aestésis (aiesthésis) del olvido al que la relegó la hegemonía de la estética. Aunque el vocablo proviene de Grecia, nos apropiamos de ella en el marco del pensamiento decolonial. En este ensayo reintroduzco el concepto de gnosis, ya incorporado en Local Histories/Global Designs (2000), para re-organizar los sentidos y la política de la reconstitución epistémica/estética (dos conceptos moderno/coloniales) mediante la introducción de gnosis y aestésica, dos conceptos decoloniales apropiados y expropiados del Griego antiguo y sepultados en el vocabulario moderno/colonial.
My main argument combines two decolonial instances. The first one is the decolonial re-orientation introduced by Aníbal Quijano (in 1990) at the very end of the Cold War. In the 80s it was already evident that the objectives of decolonization could not be achieved through the founding of national states. Quijano intuited that the coloniality of power was an invisible and underlying structure of Western civilization, hidden under the pledges made in the name of modernity. For Quijano, the decolonial task was, in the first place, to get rid of the coloniality of power and, secondly, to engage in epistemological reconstitution. The second instance, 20 years later, was the introduction of decolonial reflections within the framework of the coloniality of power of aesthetic restitution. In the process of advancing in the epistemological and aesthetic reconstitution, we rescue the concept of aiesthesis from the oblivion to which the hegemony of aesthetics relegated it. Although the word comes from Greece, we appropriate it in the framework of decolonial thinking. In this essay, I reintroduce the concept of gnosis, already incorporated in Local Histories/Global Designs (2000), to re-organize the senses and the politics of epistemic/aesthetic reconstitution (two modern/colonial concepts).
My main argument combines two decolonial instances. The first one is the decolonial re-orientation introduced by Aníbal Quijano (in 1990) at the very end of the Cold War. In the 80s it was already evident that the objectives of decolonization could not be achieved through the founding of national states. Quijano intuited that the coloniality of power was an invisible and underlying structure of Western civilization, hidden under the pledges made in the name of modernity. For Quijano, the decolonial task was, in the first place, to get rid of the coloniality of power and, secondly, to engage in epistemological reconstitution. The second instance, 20 years later, was the introduction of decolonial reflections within the framework of the coloniality of power of aesthetic restitution. In the process of advancing in the epistemological and aesthetic reconstitution, we rescue the concept of aiesthesis from the oblivion to which the hegemony of aesthetics relegated it. Although the word comes from Greece, we appropriate it in the framework of decolonial thinking. In this essay, I reintroduce the concept of gnosis, already incorporated in Local Histories/Global Designs (2000), to re-organize the senses and the politics of epistemic/aesthetic reconstitution (two modern/colonial concepts).
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Decolonial gnoseology, decolonial aesthesic, decolonial healing