Memory and Fragility: Art's Resistance to Oblivion (Three Colombian Cases)

López, María del Rosario Acosta

doi:10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.1.0071

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“…Public art aimed at mourning the oppressed is often used for precisely this reason. 83 As the artists Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza write:…”

Section: Responsibility and Mourningmentioning

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The Gift of Mourning

Bechtol

2024

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This paper explores the relationship of mourning and the gift in the work of Jacques Derrida. I argue that mourning is not a Derridean gift, but mourning does open us to the gift. Reading the works of Aristotle, Cicero, and Kierkegaard on friendship and love to the dead in the wake of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship makes this relation among mourning and the gift apparent for he presents mourning as the opening to a democracy to-come whose logic is the gift. Through these accounts, I maintain that in preparing us for the gift, mourning the dead other can help us to relate better with the living other in ethical, political, and ontological terms.

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“…Public art aimed at mourning the oppressed is often used for precisely this reason. 83 As the artists Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza write:…”

Section: Responsibility and Mourningmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Gift of Mourning

Bechtol

2024

JFFP

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Acts of Remaining: Liquid Ecologies and Memory Work in Contemporary Art Interventions

Gomez¹

2020

Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art

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Complex Communication and Decolonial Struggles: The Forging of Deep Coalitions through Emotional Echoing and Resistant Imaginations

Medina¹

2020

Critical Philosophy of Race

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This article elucidates and expands on María Lugones's account of complex communication across liminal sites as the basis for deep coalitions among oppressed groups. The analysis underscores the crucial role that emotions and resistant imaginations play in complex communication and world-traveling across liminal sites. In particular, it focuses on the role of emotional echoing and epistemic activism in complex forms of communication among oppressed subjects. It elucidates Gloria Anzaldúa's storytelling and Doris Salcedo's visual art as exemplary forms of epistemic activism that issue coalitional gestures and critical provocations that can wake people up from their epistemic slumbers and instigate forms of complex communication that can create new possibilities for coalitional politics.

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Memory and Fragility: Art's Resistance to Oblivion (Three Colombian Cases)

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

The Gift of Mourning

The Gift of Mourning

Acts of Remaining: Liquid Ecologies and Memory Work in Contemporary Art Interventions

Complex Communication and Decolonial Struggles: The Forging of Deep Coalitions through Emotional Echoing and Resistant Imaginations

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