José Luis Barrios Lara
2 podcasts
12.04.2019
41 MIN
Spanish
SON[I]A #281. José Luis Barrios Lara
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with José Luis Barrios Lara that we were unable to include the first time around.
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08.12.2018
59 MIN
Spanish
Son[i]a #281
José Luis Barrios Lara
José Luis Barrios Lara
The philosopher, art historian, curator and critic José Luis Barrios Lara reflects on the founding myth of the West, modernity, and the invention of the other. He considers identity politics as a political tool and a means for the management of bodies in space, questions the effectiveness of the epistemologies of the South, and interprets the global migration crisis as a form of neo-slavery. A grim scenario in which, he says, certain intersections of art and politics still have the power to destabilise the semantic field of representation and make room for the subversive.
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