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Crises of the Political Imagination: The Aesthetics of Colonial and Planetary Violences
- philoSOPHIA
- State University of New York Press
- Volume 13, 2023
- pp. 4-15
- 10.1353/phi.2023.a919593
- Article
- Additional Information
In this article, I focus on intersections between colonial violence, aesthetics, and ecological crises as reflections of a crisis of the political imagination. I engage Namita Goswami’s Subjects That Matter and argue that the ways in which her text pursues forms of questioning racialized and gendered colonial violences provides a context for approaching variations of colonial violence collectively. By engaging Goswami’s text, I propose a postcolonial aesthetics as a way of rethinking our planetary bonds, aesthetically. I further argue that postcolonial aesthetics runs contrary to our contemporary political imagination, and that it makes the crisis of this imaginary apparent.