CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso A Never-Ending Historicity: The Antifuturist Discourses of Abya Yala and their Confrontation with the Finite Time of Western Modernity
In opposition to the dominant modern and imperialist narrative, I counterpose narratives of native peoples of Abya Yala and Afro-descendants in this territory who have been systematically denied and silenced by modern-colonial reason. The research project proposes a survey of the discourses that question, confront and try to stop the advance of modernity as a program for the future; as the future for all existing societies. The project will undertake a mapping of the discourses emitted by communities of the world of life in relation that in Abya Yala deny modernity as a “way out” and oppose the idea of the future “as a way forward” and as a "break with tradition". It is about highlighting other narratives that confront this idea of modernity as the only destiny and, at the same time, as the end (in its double sense) of humanity and that, on the contrary, propose the “past” as a horizon and principle of life. The project is broad, but in principle, it aims at studying five potentially relevant discourses: 1) the antifuturism of the Nativo-Canadian movement; 2) the Afrofuturism of the United States; 3) the Mayan communities that state that "the future already was"; and 4) the oral history of Caribbean Maroonism.