Futures that have already been, presents that are not. The posthumanist-decolonial horizon and the idea of progress

Abstract

This article is framed in a crossroads of readings from contemporary feminist theory on the imaginaries configured as an idea of ​​the present and future, specifically addressing Latin American “imaginaries of the possible”, discussed from the ELFC (Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meetings). of the late nineties and to the Western “Utopias-dystopias” in their idea of ​​progress from the new feminist materialisms. The first understood and updated from the position of Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso and Ochy Curiel, in the documents The future was already: a critique of the idea of ​​progress in sex-gender and queer identity liberation narratives in Abya Yala and Constructing feminist methodologies from decolonial feminism, compiled by Julia Antivilo this year (2023) in the book Trajectories of feminist thought in Latin America. The latter to contrast the idea of ​​Posthumanism and posthuman knowledge from the proposal of Rosi Braidotti (2019). The proposed fabric is to map the discussion of both imaginaries, to recognize the places and displacements of power that operate in a possible historical project - of links and not of things - and what their localized tensions are. The hypothesis of the article implies the relationship of both views, in a general way, with the current phase of capitalism, from an embodied and territorialized position. For the three thinkers, the production of affects and sensitivity through art also implies a fundamental fact in the construction of memories and counter-memories, community and narratives, which do not devolve into “things” as an artistic project, but rather into networks and critical pedagogies. . As the theory and academic publications are recent, a very specific objective is raised in this work: what are the main points of convergence and tension between both perspectives? And, what is the relationship of the previous nodal points with the production of feminist or dissident visualities? Without attempting to develop these points exhaustively, we seek to begin mapping this necessary dialogue.