Fundamentals for an Aesthetic of Liberation

Abstract

A terrifying lament, a lacerating gaze, an unusual smell, a dark color and supposedly primitive languages, are manifested through a reality check that seeks to question the stagnant subject that pays off in terms of neatness, whiteness and pain relievers for the conscience. If the material principle of the ethics of liberation is fulfilled (Dussel, 2002), one can think of aesthetics as a necessary stage in the production of the conditions of liberation. In other words, aesthetics at different levels will be the path that marks the path towards liberating praxis. In this first note we begin to speak of a certain idea of ​​aesthetics (ergo, of art in its entirety) as a possible engine for the liberation of the human being, taking into account the equivalent word in all current culture, with the equally distinctive nuances of each. one of them: Latin American, Aztec, Mayan, Quechua, Aymara, and so on.