FINAL submitted after editor's corrections 4 12 11 Vallega Aesthetics ...

• mémoire

1 On Aesthetic Liberation: The Coloniality of Time and Latin American Thought Alejandro A. Vallega (University of Oregon) ... The question of Latin American identity is, more than ever before, a historic, open and heterogeneous project, and not only — or perhaps not very much — loyalty to a memory and a past. This history has enabled us to see that in reality we are dealing with many different memories and many different pasts, still without a common and shared course.

• awareness of multiple temporalities
• temporalities
• shoulder to shoulder struggle
• coloniality of time
• liberation
• political power
• human life
• life
• community
• time