¡Presente! : the politics of presence
By: Taylor, Diana [author.]
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320.01 ROU 2002 The social contract ; | 320.01 Sch 1985 The crisis of parliamentary democracy / | 320.01 Sta 2018 Hobbes's Kingdom of Light : | 320.01 TAY 2020 ¡Presente! : the politics of presence | 320.011 ADL 1990 Great books of the Western world [43] Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche | 320.011 AQU 2007 Commentary on Aristotle's Politics | 320.011 Ari 1944 Politics / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Coming into presence -- Enacting refusal : political animatives -- Camino largo : the Zapatistas' long road toward autonomy -- Making presence -- Traumatic memes -- We have always been queer -- Tortuous routes : four walks through Villa Grimaldi -- Dead capital -- The decision dilemma.
"¡PRESENTE! investigates the many answers to a seemingly simple question: What does it mean to be present? Performance studies scholar Diana Taylor answers that question by offering an expansive explication of presence as both ethical command and performative knowledge production. Taking the histories of state violence, colonialism, and imperialism as her starting point, Taylor situates being ¡Presente! as an embodied and performed practice of standing alongside those harmed by historical and ongoing violence. Noting that Present/e is simultaneously single and plural in English and Spanish, and drawing on Jean Luc Nancy's formulation of being singular plural, Taylor asks how presence is imbricated in questions of subject formation and collectivity. She begins with reframing the racialization of Latin Americans as a coming into presence through colonial conquest-a presence not as subjects but as subjugated objects-and asks what was made absent through this racialized process. For Taylor, the epistemicide of Indigenous, Native, and African ways of knowing stands at the center of this process of presence and absence. To counter this ongoing epistemicide, Taylor situates ¡Presente! as a performative and decolonial mode of knowledge production that decenters European Enlightenment traditions and seriously takes up Native, Indigenous, and African ways of knowledge and temporality. Grounded in performance studies, this book links knowledge to action as a doing practice, or what Taylor calls a "peripatetic strategy" that emphasis movement in learning. This book offers an expansive theory of ¡Presente! in various locations and situations: the original colonial conquest of Columbus and the Spanish; the May 1968 student protests; a study in Zapatistan autonomy; the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa; queer histories of Mexico; and the former torture centers of the Pinochet dictatorship. Throughout these varied locations, Taylor weaves a methodology, theory, and practice of ¡Presente!. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of performance studies, Latin American studies, American studies, critical ethnic studies, colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, and queer theory"--
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