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.
Vistas of Modernity is part of the essay series by the Mondriaan Fund with essays on current topics within the visual arts and heritage. Eelco van der Lingen (director Mondriaan Fund) on 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.”
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.
Rolando Vázquez, Vistas of Modernity – decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary
Language: English
182 pages
€ 15, for sale via Jap Sam Books
ISBN 978-90-76936-53-6
Please note, the printed book is sold out. The e-book is still available.