A topologia do Ser e a geopolítica do conhecimento. Modernidade, império e colonialidade

O ensaio examina a articulação entre raça e espaço na obra de vários pensadores europeus. Centrando-se no projecto de Martin Heidegger de procurar no Ocidente as raízes, denuncia a cumplicidade desse projecto com uma visão cartográfica imperial que cria e separa as cidades dos deuses e as cidades dos danados. O autor identifica concepções análogas noutros pensadores ocidentais, sobretudo em Levinas, Negri, ˇZiˇzeck, Habermas e Derrida. Ao projecto da busca das raízes, com os seus pressupostos racistas, ele opõe uma visão crítica, inspirada em Fanon, que sublinha o carácter constitutivo da colonialidade e da danação para o projecto da modernidade europeia. O autor conclui com um apelo a uma diversalidade radical e uma geopolítica do conhecimento descolonial.This essay examines the conjunction of race and space in the work of several European thinkers. It focuses on Martin Heidegger¹s project of Searching for roots in the West. This project of searching for roots is unmasked as being complicit with an imperial cartographical vision that creates and divides the cities of the gods and the cities of the damned. Maldonado-Torres identifies similar conceptions in other Western thinkers, most notably Levinas, Negri, Zizeck, Habermas, and Derrida. To the project of searching for roots and its racist undertones, he opposes a Fanonian critical vision that highlights the constitutive character of coloniality and damnation for the project of European modernity. The author concludes with a call for radical diversality and a decolonial geopolitics of knowledge.Cet essai examine l’articulation entre la race et l’espace dans l’œuvre de divers penseurs européens. En examinant plus particulièrement le projet de Martin Heidegger dans sa recherche des racines en Occident, il dénonce la complicité de son projet avec une vision cartographique impériale créant et séparant les cités des dieux et les cités des damnés. L’auteur identifie des conceptions analogues chez d’autres penseurs occidentaux, et surtout chez Levinas, Negri, Zizeck, Habermas et Derrida. Au projet de la quête des racines, avec ses présupposés racistes, il oppose une vision critique inspirée de Fanon, qui souligne le caractère constitutif de la colonialité et de la damnation pour la modernité européenne. L’auteur conclut par un appel à une ”diversalité” radicale et une géopolitique de la connaissance décoloniale

El arte como territorio de re-existencia. Una aproximación decolonial

Some basic questions when exploring the subject of art as a territory of resistance are: what is art ?, what is resistance ?, what is resisting ?, what is it resisting ?, and what do we refer to as territory ? In the modern / colonial world, resistance in its most radical sense should perhaps be understood as an effort for re-existence1. In other words, that resistance is not only a matter of denying an oppressive power, but also of creating ways of existing, which includes ways of feeling, thinking, and acting in a world that is building itself through of various insurgencies and irruptions that seek to constitute it as a human world.Algunas preguntas básicas al explorar el tema del arte como territorio de resistencia son: ¿qué es el arte?, ¿qué es la resistencia?, ¿que se resiste?, ¿para qué se resiste?, y ¿a que nos referimos como territorio? En el mundo moderno/colonial, la resistencia en su sentido más radical quizás deba ser entendida como un esfuerzo por la re-existencia1. Es decir, que resistencia no se trata solamente de una cuestión de negar un poder opresor, sino también de crear maneras de existir, lo que incluye formas de sentir, de pensar, y de actuar en un mundo que se va construyendo el mismo a través de variadas insurgencias e irrupciones que buscan constituirlo como un mundo humano

Decolonising Philosophy

Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial turn in philosophy, theory and critique by providing an analysis of the trajectories of academic philosophy and clarifying the relevance of decolonising philosophy and of the decolonial turn for current efforts in transforming philosophy in face of the challenges of social movements such as the Third World Liberation Front and Black Lives Matter in the United States, and Rhodes Must Fall in South Africa and England. After a brief analysis of the trajectory and current status of philosophy as a discipline in the modern Western research university, we provide examples of the decolonial turn and of decolonising philosophy in three areas: the engagement with (1) Asian and (2) Latin American philosophies, and (3) debates in the philosophy of race and gender

La pandemia de la COVID-19, la fuerza mayor y la alteración de las circunstancias en materia contractual

La declaratoria del estado de emergencia, a causa de la pandemia de la covid-19, exige un análisis de la vigencia de las relaciones contractuales y cómo estas pueden verse afectadas por eventos extraordinarios, imprevisibles e irresistibles que impidan el cumplimiento de las prestaciones, así como aquellos casos en los que la alteración de las circunstancias puede llevar a que una de las partes exija al juez recomponga el contenido de la prestación pactada o la resolución del contrato.The declaration of a state of emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic requires an analysis of the validity of the contractual relations and how these may be affected by extraordinary, unforeseeable and irresistible events that prevent the performance of the services, as well as those cases in which the alteration of circumstances may lead one of the parties to demand that the judge recompose the content of the agreed service or terminate the contract.A declaração de estado de emergência, devido à pandemia da covid-19, exige uma análise da vigência das relações contratuais e como estas podem ser afetadas por eventos extraordinários, imprevisíveis e irresistíveis que impeçam o cumprimento das benefícios, assim como aqueles casos em que a alteração das circunstâncias podem levar a que uma das partes exija que o juiz recomponha o conteúdo da benefício acordada ou a rescisão do contrato

A pandemia da covid-19, a força maior e a alteração das circunstâncias em matéria contratual

The declaration of a state of emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic requires an analysis of the validity of the contractual relations and how these may be affected by extraordinary, unforeseeable and irresistible events that prevent the performance of the services, as well as those cases in which the alteration of circumstances may lead one of the parties to demand that the judge recompose the content of the agreed service or terminate the contract.La declaratoria del estado de emergencia, a causa de la pandemia de la covid-19, exige un análisis de la vigencia de las relaciones contractuales y cómo estas pueden verse afectadas por eventos extraordinarios, imprevisibles e irresistibles que impidan el cumplimiento de las prestaciones, así como aquellos casos en los que la alteración de las circunstancias puede llevar a que una de las partes exija al juez recomponga el contenido de la prestación pactada o la resolución del contrato.A declaração de estado de emergência, devido à pandemia da covid-19, exige uma análise da vigência das relações contratuais e como estas podem ser afetadas por eventos extraordinários, imprevisíveis e irresistíveis que impeçam o cumprimento das prestações, assim como aqueles casos em que a alteração das circunstâncias podem levar a que uma das partes exija que o juiz recomponha o conteúdo da prestação acordada ou a rescisão do contrato

Descolonizando. Diálogo con Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso y Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

We have the opportunity to present an interview with two of the greatest voices of the modernity-coloniality group. Both are references, both at a theoretical and practical level, in the fight for global decolonization through their epistemological and action contributions. Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is one of the most important voices on anti-racist decolonial feminism. She is also an important activist of the Latin American Group of Studies, Training and Feminist Action (GLEFAS) through which they put into practice the theoretical reflections involved in their production of knowledge. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, born in Puerto Rico, is a professor at the State University of New Jersey. He has a great production on decolonial theory, his contributions made to the decolonial turn being especially important. In addition to his theoretical production, he is an activist involved in different social movements.Tenemos la oportunidad de presentar una entrevista con dos de las mayores voces del grupo modernidad-colonialidad. Ambas son referencias, tanto a nivel teórico como práctico, en la lucha por la decolonización mundial a través de sus aportaciones epistemológicas y de acción. Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, nacida en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, es una de las más importantes voces sobre feminismo decolonial antirracista. También es una importante activista del Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudios, Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS) mediante el cual llevan a la práctica las reflexiones teóricas envuelta en su producción de conocimiento. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, nacido en Puerto Rico, es docente en la Universidad Estadual de Nueva Jersey. Posee una gran producción sobre la teoría decolonial, siendo especialmente importantes sus contribuciones hechas al giro decolonial. Además de su producción teórica es un activista envuelto en diferentes movimientos sociales

Fanon’s Decolonial Transcendence of Psychoanalysis

Coloniality continues to invade the psychomaterial lives of the condemned. Invoking psychoanalysis and phenomenology to engage with modern psychopathologies and race, gender, and sexuality, Fanon developed seminal ideas on social suffering in the context of colonial violence on psychic life. In reading Fanon, we discern two challenges: the decolonial transcendence of psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, and the decolonial transcendence of psychoanalysis as a practice. These challenges are integral to the transcendence of disciplines and healing practices, and the requirement to develop a “multidimensional investigation” of human beings in the face of alterity and sociality in human reality. Fanon’s decolonial turn in psychoanalysis offers the makings of a decolonial and Fanonian oath for healing, of which decolonial love is a central principle. Our instantiation of transcendence of practice orients toward the provisions for a decolonial and Fanonian oath for healing, animated through epistemic agency, politicoaffectivity, actional consciousness, and radical relationality.Institute for Social and Health Studies (ISHS

El turismo como contribución al crecimiento del PIB, para el desarrollo de la economía del país

This research is based on the macro project "Competitive bets of the agrotourism route of the coffee sector of the municipality of Gramalote Norte de Santander" that is being carried out by the National Federation of Coffee Growers, where it is intended to identify the growing participation of tourism in the Colombian economy and be the driving force of the regional and national economy. Due to new trends, markets have begun to enter new business models, where the main option focuses on different types of tourism as a driver of the countries' economic. The objective is to identify the contribution of the tourism sector to the country's economy. Where research is carried out with a descriptive approach, applied with documentary design and theoretical review. The results obtained with this research show that the tourism sector in Colombia, according to the report of the economic indicators, the entry of tourists to the country has increased by 150 % and shows a considerable participation in the Colombian economy. In conclusion, tourism is an economic engine and in the same way it constitutes an important reference of income for the country and the coffee sector from the diversification in tourist destinations for competitivenes.Esta investigación parte del macroproyecto “apuestas de competitividad de la ruta agroturística del sector cafetero del municipio de Gramalote Norte de Santander” que está realizando la academia con la Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, donde se pretende identificar la creciente participación del turismo en la economía colombiana y sea eje impulsador de la economía regional y nacional. Debido a las nuevas tendencias, los mercados han empezado a incursionar en nuevos modelos de negocios, donde la principal opción se centra en los diferentes tipos de turismo como un impulsador de la económica de los países, se propone identificar el aporte del sector turismo en la economía del país. Donde se desarrolla una investigación con un enfoque descriptivo, aplicada con diseño documental y revisión teórica. Los resultados obtenidos con esta investigación evidencian que el sector turismo en Colombia según reporte de los indicadores económicos se ha incrementado en un 150 % y muestra una considerable participación en la economía colombiana. Como conclusión, el turismo es un motor económico y de igual manera se constituye un referente importante de ingresos para el país a partir de la diversificación en los destinos turísticos para la competitividad