Time and release

Exordium to liberatory, experiential and decolonial thoughts

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo 2021

When we start to think from affectivity, emotions, from the physical, and from memorial and involuntary aspects, from traumas, absences and disappearances, with silences, exclusions, exiles … we face a radically new, dynamic horizon of knowledge and transformer. New paths open to us for liberatory and decolonial thoughts, paths for knowledge and knowledge, many unacceptable when not unthinkable until today, and yet they are already with us. A book to start thinking from and with the specific and different situations in which we find ourselves, with and from hybrid and multi-universal knowledge.

An essay that explains in a philosophical way how the thought generated in Latin America (Francisco Antonio Zea, José Martí, Mayz Vallenilla and the native peoples, among others) and the concrete experience of this place offer us a valuable way of living, thinking and positioning ourselves in the world: one in which reason does not prevail over intuition and sensory perceptions, and therefore in which emotions stand out as a form of knowledge, and where history is not a past event but is present on the daily horizon of life.

A text that provides a decolonial key: the memory of the past, almost involuntarily assumed in the present and used with a view to the future (that is, time), all of this as a modality of dynamic and necessary consciousness in the search for liberation.