Brzyski provides a useful methodological approach for those analyzing the definitions and reception of non-Western and Eastern European Cold War and contemporary art. Her discussion of conventional Western interpretations of Chinese contemporary art is particularly productive since she points to blind spots in curatorial and scholarly approaches, among them: the dissonance between Eurocentric temporalities of … Continue reading By Whose Rules? Contemporary Art and Geography of Art Historic Significance
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Decolonizing American Studies. Toward a Politics of Intersectional Entanglements
In this article Julia Roth points out that a transnational approach does not by de facto imply a corrective tool to address the power asymmetries produced by western imperialism. For this we must attempt to decolonize concepts and knowledge by giving agency to marginal voices, integrate scholarship produced outside the Anglo-American academy, and be critical … Continue reading Decolonizing American Studies. Toward a Politics of Intersectional Entanglements
Modernity and Revolution
The author proposes to look at modernism taking into account Dzthe differential historical temporality in which it was inscribed.dz He suggests a conjunctural explanation to understand modernist practices which will imply an intersection of different historical temporalities, and says that modernism can be best understood Dzas a cultural field of force triangulated by three decisive … Continue reading Modernity and Revolution
The Self-Colonizing Metaphor
The article puts forward the term self-colonisation in order to characterise the process of concepts, symbolic hierarchies and Eurocentric values internalisation by communities/nations that have “surrendered” to Europe/Occident cultural power, without having been invaded or become colonies. Kiossev takes Eastern Europe as his example, but the term could be applied to other “peripheral” European countries … Continue reading The Self-Colonizing Metaphor
Beyond abyssal thinking. From global lines to ecology of knowledges
This text presents coloniality as an epistemological coloniality (abyssal thinking), stressing the need for an epistemological renewal in order to exit the colonial circuit. Particularly interesting is the fact that Sousa not only points the problem out, but also proposes a solution based on the concept of “ecology of knowledge”. Ecological thinking is understood as … Continue reading Beyond abyssal thinking. From global lines to ecology of knowledges
