Abstract

MAZO GONZALEZ, Julio César. The impossible beyond the White body: on love, politics and decolonial critique. Hallazgos [online]. 2021, vol.18, n.36, pp.103-133.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/2422409x.5794.

The fundamental purpose of this article is twofold. On the one hand, to critically examine keys –meaning the “privileges”, the excesses but also the exhaustions - of the modern-colonial project, through what Houria Boutelidia calls the White body, that is, the representation of the West’s overwhelming civilizational transformation, but also, on the other hand, the anti-systemic essentialism into which much of decolonial critique has fallen. Secondly, this examination hopes to shed light on a critical and dialogical re-evaluation of love, on how trade and racial domination codes of white supremacy hold on love as an impossibility. It thus places it at the heart of a renewed decolonial revolution, which sees in antagonism - the inextinguishable conflict that follows the encounter with difference - the only possible rescue of democracy, but, above all, of a true and even paradoxical alliance between those whom the White body has brought to the limit of oppression and apparent segmentation. Ultimately, this reminds us that revolutionary love is the only one that, today helps restore the idea of free will as an inherently combative process.

Keywords : Love; Antagonism; White Body; Decolonial critique; Politics; Free will.

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