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Vistas of Modernity
+++decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary+++
+++Rolando Vázquez+++
ISBN
978-90-76936-53-6
Graphic designer
Stout/Kramer
Number of pages
184
Book size
12.4 x 18.6 cm
Binding
Hardcover
Vistas of Modernity is a new title in a series of essays commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund.
Edited by Rosa te Velde. Foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.
For more information: Mondriaan Fonds
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We are living in a time of polarization. Cultural and educational institutions are confronted with the responsibility to provide tools and spaces for critical reflection, for engagement, and, more fundamentally, for meeting and recognizing each other in our differences. In this decolonial essay Rolando Vázquez introduces his critique which offers an option for thinking and doing beyond the dominant paradigms. It provides a critical analysis of modernity understood broadly as the western project of civilization, while it seeks to overcome the dominion of western epistemology and aesthetics and their embedded eurocentrism and anthropocentrism.
Importantly for decolonial thought we are all located in relation to the colonial difference that structures our modern/colonial order. It is only from an awareness of our positioned realities that we can enter in relation with each-other, that we can listen to each-other and learn each-other.
About the author: Rolando Vázquez is co-organizer of the Middelburg Decolonial Summer School. He is associate professor of Sociology at University College Roosevelt and Cluster Chair at University College Utrecht, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Eelco van der Lingen, director of the Mondriaan Fund about the essay: 'Rolando Vázquez is cautious in presenting his analysis. He does not look for quick conclusions, but slowly guides the reader through the context of our history and the contemporary labyrinth of text, language, symbols and images which (often without being properly noticed) give great meaning to our existence. His decolonial aesthesis lifts us above the labyrinth and offers us a new panorama.'
decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary
€15.00
Vistas of Modernity
decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary
€15.00
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ISBN
978-90-76936-53-6
Graphic designer
Stout/Kramer
Number of pages
184
Book size
12.4 x 18.6 cm
Binding
Hardcover
Vistas of Modernity is a new title in a series of essays commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund.
Edited by Rosa te Velde. Foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.
For more information: Mondriaan Fonds
We are living in a time of polarization. Cultural and educational institutions are confronted with the responsibility to provide tools and spaces for critical reflection, for engagement, and, more fundamentally, for meeting and recognizing each other in our differences. In this decolonial essay Rolando Vázquez introduces his critique which offers an option for thinking and doing beyond the dominant paradigms. It provides a critical analysis of modernity understood broadly as the western project of civilization, while it seeks to overcome the dominion of western epistemology and aesthetics and their embedded eurocentrism and anthropocentrism.
Importantly for decolonial thought we are all located in relation to the colonial difference that structures our modern/colonial order. It is only from an awareness of our positioned realities that we can enter in relation with each-other, that we can listen to each-other and learn each-other.
About the author: Rolando Vázquez is co-organizer of the Middelburg Decolonial Summer School. He is associate professor of Sociology at University College Roosevelt and Cluster Chair at University College Utrecht, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Eelco van der Lingen, director of the Mondriaan Fund about the essay: 'Rolando Vázquez is cautious in presenting his analysis. He does not look for quick conclusions, but slowly guides the reader through the context of our history and the contemporary labyrinth of text, language, symbols and images which (often without being properly noticed) give great meaning to our existence. His decolonial aesthesis lifts us above the labyrinth and offers us a new panorama.'
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