Latin American Cultural Theories

The aim of this course is to shape disciplines such as poetics and aesthetics as a theoretical and political field in order to discuss concepts such as identities, alterity, indigenism, colonialism, subectivities, diversity, and dissidence. Concepts that today are in danger of being confronted with deletion and dissappearance: we must rethink them, affirm their complexities and usefulness even if they may appear as insufficient in order to be able to negate, discuss or confront them with the final goal of finding our own critical path. We are going to analyze territories from North America to Antardida as a common cartography, the cultural maps that involves the possibility to confront different thinkers and activists, addressing their thoughts and cultural reflections through different texts. We will share and discuss fragments by Walter Mignolo, Eduardo Castro Gómez, Sueli Rolnik, Néstor García Canclini, Silvia Cusicanqui, Enrique Dusserl, José Martí, Berta Cáceres and Gloria Anzaldúa. (1 unit)