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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Time, awareness of the bad faith (feeling and knowing among the white community that you are not the same, and pretending you are) is better expressed in the following paragraph: The museum is like American society at large. I grew up in an environment where I was alienated, and yet perhaps better placed in the Museum of Natural History than in between Tintoretto and Rafael, mixed with el Greco and Picasso, even if these last two were Hispanics. (p. 28) Hispanics, but marginal CastiliansEl Greco was from Greece as the name indicates, and Picasso was Catalan: Spanish but not Castilian. In a nutshell, Wilson is being recognized for something else, not for his dismantling of the imperial logic that is recognizing him. Thus, the need to construct narratives and conceptual frames that, while recognizing Wilsons official recognition, brings him back to the terrain of his struggle: de-colonial thinking. V. Fred Wilsons de-colonial shift. De-colonial shift is not just a change in content, but in the logic of conversation. Wilson has been recognized for his revolutionary content, while the recognition (by the MacArthur Foundation, by Venice Biennal and by progressive art critics) contributes to hide its really revolutionary motive. Wilsons Pachakutito use the Aymara expressioncould be correlated with the invasion of Spanish troops and missionaries into the Andean region of the Inca Empire. From the perspective of the inhabitants of Tawantinsuyu, the world was suddenly turned around (turned upside down, to use Waman Puma de Ayala's expression). Wilsons work is contributing
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