Coloniality of the body, subjectivation, and ontological dualisms: about a mestiza need to reeexist to coexist

Abstract

Every world/ontology produces modes of subjectivation, and every mode of subjectivation produces world(s)/ontologies. We inherit, while (re)producing), a mode of subjectivation that is correlative to the ontological conditions of the world. The ontology of the modern colonial project has imposed itself as a single world, at the cost of denying the coexistence of others. Faced with such a scenario, the need to re-exist in order to coexist arises as a relational ethical practice that allows us to review, question, and heal colonial wounds funcionar to domination. To this end, the paper organizes three discussions: (1) the problem of coexistence that opens the field of political ontology and its relationship with the consciousness of the new mestiza; (2) the mechanisms and strategies of the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being that contributed to the subjective internalization of its logic; and (3) corporeality, temporality, and territoriality as dimensions of subjectivation that allow us to make a corporal cartography of colonial wounds and their fragmentation practices. Finally, memory is reflected upon in relational and cosmopolitical terms as part of the mestiza's excess pulsional, within the framework of the transitions to the Pluriverse.