Abstract

ACOSTA LOPEZ, María del Rosario. From aesthetics as critique to grammars of listening: aesthetic resistance to epistemic violence (autobiographical essay). Estud.filos [online]. 2022, n.66, pp.131-154.  Epub Sep 02, 2022. ISSN 0121-3628.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.349487.

This paper presents an overview of my work in philosophy from my first book on Friedrich Schiller and the political sublime to my most recent project on listening to traumatic forms of violence. Starting with a reflection on the autobiographical character of philosophy, I propose to move on afterwards to the question of an aesthetic dimension of philosophical critique. Departing from aesthetics understood and deployed as critique, the paper ends by asking about the specific frameworks or grammars of sense that define the conditions for something to be (or be rendered) audible in the realms of memory-building and history-making. A attend particularly here to forms of historical, political, and institutional violence that are aimed to produce silencing and erasure. Putting in dialogue the latter with decolonial studies, I (re)interpret “traumatic violence” as a colonizing form of violence, understanding that one of its central aspects is that it is not only an assault on life but on the conditions of production of sense that make life legible. In this context, my project on grammars of listening, in conversation with a decolonial approach to epistemic injustice and violence, seeks to carefully unpack these complex intersections while also explaining why I believe that a radical form of listening is an essential subversive/imaginative strategy against traumatic/colonial violence.

Keywords : aesthetics; critique; grammars of listening; trauma; decoloniality; memory.

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