Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance

Informed by Gloria Anzaldúa''s and José Carlos Mariátegui''s work, as well as by Andean cosmology, Omar Rivera turns to Inka stonework and architecture as an example of a “Cosmological Aesthetics.” He articulates ways of sensing, feeling and remembering that are attuned to an aesthetic of water, earth and light. On this basis, Rivera brings forth a corporeal orientation that can be inhabited by th...