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Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Practices and Discourses of Decolonization
The Bolivian scholar and activist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a pre-eminent Latin American intellectual, world renowned for her work in postcolonial and subaltern studies. She has long maintained that we must acknowledge how colonial structures of domination continue to affect indigenous identities and cultures. Even in contexts where diversity and the value of indigenous cultures have been officially recognized, “internal colonialism” operates as a structure that shapes mental categories and social practices.
This book considers this persistent colonial structure by examining artistic and popular practices of apprehending and resisting it, arguing that in Andean cultures there is a sustained practice of insubordinate image production and use. Combining this visual history with other instances of political resistance, the book offers an alternative narrative to the history of Latin American decolonisation. This narrative challenges the common conception that mestizaje (race-mixing) and hybridity are liberatory formations, offering instead a new theorisation of the complex racial configurations produced by colonialism and its afterlives.
Given Rivera Cusicanqui’s vital contribution to critical epistemologies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to everyone concerned with the key questions of critical theory today.
A sampler.
This book is a sampler of Quarantine’s work since we started in November 1998. Every word and image is from our archive. Some of the material originated with us, the rest was written or spoken with us, the rest was written or spoken by others. The pages may seem disparate, contradictory even; they are fragments of over 20 years, more projects, many voices.
We’ve realised over the years that our work is a form of portraiture. This sampler is a kind of self-portrait of Quarantine.
Archive Fever
Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.
The Death of a Clown
An audacious and essential take on modern life, alienation and sexuality that simultaenously estranges itself from and relates to its audience.
Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art
Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice.
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People
What is it that makes humans, human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever.
Oleg Kulik documentation
Includes:
– MOMMA film 7’42”
– Family of the Future, 22’22”
– I Can’t Keep Silence Any More, 2’42”
– Missionary, London 2012, 5’28; Moscow, 1995, 5’38 and 2’20”
– Pavlov’s Dog, 3’49”
– Two Kuliks, 5’58
Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practice
Theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance.
Yingmei Duan: Performance & Performative Installation Art 1995-2013
An overview of Yingmei Duan's performance and installation work since 1995.
‘We’re people who do shows’: Back to Back Theatre Performance Politics Visibility
This book gathers key perspectives on Back to Back Theatre and the company's most influential shows
