IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Mario Bellatin's Minor Cosmopolitanism
Autor/es:
DELFINA CABRERA
Lugar:
Berlín
Reunión:
Jornada; Minor Cosmopolitan Weekend - Haus der Kulturen der Welt; 2018
Institución organizadora:
Universidad de Potsdam
Resumen:
While the cosmopolitan ideal as formulated in the period of the European Enlightenment saw the democratic impulses of the aspiring middle classes as the answer to age-old despotism, this very same ideal was simultaneously based on the history of systematic debasement and disenfranchisement, and on the dehumanisation and extermination of countless non-Europeans. Cosmopolitan approaches in this tradition, which are still influential today, can be called ?major cosmopolitanisms.? They remain indebted to a perspective that measures the world entirely with Western standards but does not reflect on Europe?s imperial heritage or on the validity of other views of the world.By contrast, the idea of minor cosmopolitanisms goes against any claim to be a single universally valid cosmopolitan norm, and instead insists on cosmopolitanisms always being embedded in concrete conditions and practices that are always locally, historically and politically specific. To be sure, drafting binding laws for all is the essence of cosmopolitan thinking, action and sentiment, but these can always only be provisional universalisms that no longer make any absolute and timeless claims: Ultimately the idea of minor cosmopolitanisms is about truly accepting difference without abandoning the shared vision of global coexistence and justice. As a consequence, minor cosmopolitanisms make mandatory the reflection and revision of the ostensible universal validity of Eurocentric norms.The event is designed to explore particularly these productive tensions: between the local and the global, the individual and the collective, and the specific and the universal. Specifically, I will present Mario Bellatin´s impressive photo archive and videos in its intersection with questions of translation, literature, art and certainly (minor) cosmopolitanisms.