Rolando Vázquez
Rolando Vázquez Melken
In this podcast, we go into listening mode with Rolando Vázquez Melken. He proposes countering the modern-colonial aesthetic—the one that organises representation and governs our bodies and our gazes—by liberating aesthesis, or reopening the field of the sensible. The idea is to make space for other ways of seeing, listening, feeling, and living. To make room for ancestral knowledge and forms that have been historically erased, subordinated, or appropriated by the modern regime. Here, decolonial thought operates as a practice, a battlefield, an approach that walks alongside other forms of struggle and rings out in many voices: both ancestral voices and the voices that are still forging a path in the present, such as those of Walter Mignolo, María Lugones, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Wekker, and Catherine Walsh, to name just a few.