Colonial Space and Sovereign Aesthesis: Decolonial Praxis from the Black's Lived Experience by Fanon

Abstract

This article problematizes the concept of colonial space based on a point of view founded from the notion of interiority/humanity naturalized by the white (modern) world. The anti-black racism that is reflected by Fanon is based on the “aesthesic reduction” of the colonial world around mere superficiality or epidermization. Therefore, this study proposes an impoetic resistance (in modern terms) or a “poetic” re-existence (in decolonial terms) metaphorized by an “aesthesic leap” within the colonial space, with the aim to generate the conditions of possibility for a sentient, material, referential change linked with the disalienation and liberation of the Afro-American culture’s oppressed subjectivity.