EXORDIO / EXORDIUM: FOR AN AESTHETICS OF LIBERATION OUT OF LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Alejandro A. Vallega (University of Oregon)
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colonization of the Americas to date.13
lativother life is irrational.
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III. Temporality as Aesthetic Sensibility
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single timeline. This is something one sees clearly today in the way
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IV. Aesthetic Geographies of Liberation
and of a time different from history.20 —
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