Reflexiones sobre Estética Contemporánea en Tiempos de Recesión en Estudios Culturales: Una Mirada a través de los Lentes Postcoloniales.

Abstract

In this article the postcolonial context is a site of production of knowledge from where a reflection over the different lines of development within cultural Marxism in the way these are presented and developed in cultural studies. From there, begins a reflection on contemporary aesthetics understanding that aesthetic practices are linked to the work of imagination of ordinary people intensely connected to the work of capitalism and its organization and re-organization on a global scale. Indeed, the function of aesthetics is not simply dedicated to the sale of messages and images, but to the self-building of products and affiliate groups in the new millennium. The new technologies of representation are the centers of public education that serve as a forum for the work of imagination of the great masses of the people in order to organize their pasts, presents, and draw their futures. On the other side, we see the aesthetic works of postcolonial imagination, its criticism of capitalism and the parables of modernization. It is this postcolonial aesthetic work which represents the voices of an alternative existential cosmopolitanism that could put our current historical moment into perspective and thereby achieve our quest for transcendence and transformation.