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Book SynopsisInformed by Gloria Anzaldúa's and José Carlos Mariátegui's work, as well as by Andean cosmology, Omar Rivera turns to Inka stonework and architecture as an example of a Cosmological Aesthetics. He articulates ways of sensing, feeling and remembering that are attuned to an aesthetic of water, earth and light. On this basis, Rivera brings forth a corporeal orientation that can be inhabited by the oppressed, one that withdraws from predominant modern/Western conceptions of the human. By providing an aesthetic analysis of cosmological sensing, Rivera sets the stage for exploring physical dimensions of anti-colonial resistance, and furthers the Latinx and Latin American tradition of anti-colonial and liberatory philosophy. Seeing aesthetic involvements with the cosmos as a source for embodied modes of resistance, Rivera turns to the work of María Lugones and Enrique Dussel in order to make explicit the aesthetic dimensions of their work.
Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance Trade ReviewAndean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance will transform how we understand and engage decolonial theory. Rivera brilliantly moves beyond the more standard critical approaches to the impacts of colonialism and deeply engages Andean resistance. This beautifully written book attunes readers to resistant embodiments that
exceed colonialism and opens paths to new worlds. * Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University, USA *
In this pathbreaking work Rivera engages Andean aesthetic thought without nostalgia or the intention of a “return” to an ideal indigenous past. In turning to the sense of
Pacha as Cosmos in Andean thought he opens new possibilities for thinking political and social resistance and liberatory transformation beyond global and Westernizing critique, strategies, and ideological praxis. Rivera’s book exposes the reader to affective and physical registers of resistance at concrete levels that in its pages begin to open for our time and beyond it. In short, Rivera’s work is visionary and utopian while unlike any other. * Alejandro A. Vallega, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Comparative Literature Department, University of Oregon, USA *
Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: “Marginal” Theorizing and Anticolonial Resistance
Part I: Cosmological Aesthetics 1. From Elemental to Cosmological Aesthetics 2. An Approach to Andean Aesthetics
Part II: Embodiments of Resistance 3. Visions of Resistance 4. After-Bodies 5. Resistant Gestures
Part III: In Company 6. Ana-topia (In Dialogue with María Lugones) 7.
Aísthesis (In Dialogue with Enrique Dussel) Conclusion: Turns and Departures Notes Bibliography Index
