Vol. 12 (2025): post(s) 12
Akademos

The Corporeal Division of the World, or Aesthetic Ruination

PDF (Spanish) HTML (Spanish) XML (Spanish)
Rizvana Bradley
University of California, Berkeley
Bio
Anamaría Garzón Mantilla
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Cover page of "La división corporal del mundo, o la ruina estética"

Published 2025-12-15

Keywords

  • black aesthesis,
  • aesthetic ruination,
  • corporeal,
  • racial regime

Copyright (c) 2025 Rizvana Bradley, Anamaría Garzón Mantilla

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Bradley, R., & Garzón Mantilla, A. (2025). The Corporeal Division of the World, or Aesthetic Ruination. Post(s), 12, 114-147. https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v12i1.4110

Abstract

“The Corporeal Division of the World, or the Aesthetic Ruination” is the second chapter of the book Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. We are infinitely grateful to Rizvana Bradley and the publisher for allowing us to translate and share this work in Spanish.

PDF (Spanish) HTML (Spanish) XML (Spanish)

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

  1. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurgh, 1903), p. 213.
  2. David Bindman y Henry Louis Gates Jr. (eds.), The Image of the Black in Western Art, vol. 4: From the American Revolution to World War I, «Part 1: Slaves and Liberators» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), p. 119.
  3. Alexandre Corréard y Jean-Baptiste-Henri Savigny, Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 (Middlesex: Echo Library, 2007 [1817]). Para una revisión histórica reciente, ver Jonathan Miles, The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century (Nueva York: Grove Press, 2007).
  4. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France (New Haven: Yale University Press (2002), p. 168.
  5. Albert Alhadeff, Théodore Géricault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions (Londres: Routledge, 2020), pp. 30-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429316333
  6. Hugh Honour, «Philanthropic Conquest», en Bindman y Gates, Image of the Black in Western Art.
  7. Thomas Crow, Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), p. 187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691253046
  8. Crow, Restoration, p. 181.
  9. Charmaine Nelson, The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (Minneapolis:
  10. University of Minnesota Press, 2007), p. 127.
  11. Nelson, p. 68, passim.
  12. Carol Ockman, Ingres’s Eroticized Bodies: Retracing the Serpentine Line (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), p. 4.
  13. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trad. Constance Farrington (Londres: Penguin Books, 1963).
  14. David Marriott, «The Racialized Body», en David Hillman y Ulrika Maude (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 163-76, 167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781107256668.012
  15. Marriott, «The Racialized Body», p. 167.
  16. Linda Nochlin, The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor for Modernity (Nueva York: Thames and Hudson, 1994), p. 53.
  17. Rancière, Aisthesis, pp. 1-21; Johann Joachim Winckelmann, The History of Ancient Art, trad. G. Henry Lodge (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1880).
  18. Christopher S. Wood, A History of Art History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), p. 155.
  19. Winckelmann, History of Ancient Art, p. 264, citado en Rancière, p. 1.
  20. Eric Hobsbawm, «The Making of a “Bourgeois Revolution”», en Ferenc Fehèr (ed.), The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), pp. 30-46, 40. Énfasis en el original. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520335875-004
  21. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995).
  22. David Brion Davis, «The Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions», en David P. Geggus (ed.), The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001), pp. 3-7, 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvw1d76k.6
  23. Trouillot, Silencing the Past, p. 96.
  24. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, p. 599; Anthea Callen, Looking at Men: Anatomy, Masculinity, and the Modern Male Body (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), p. 195.
  25. Eric Santner, The Royal Remains (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), p. 4.
  26. Richard Sherwin, «What Authorizes the Image? The Visual Economy of Post-Secular Jurisprudence», en Desmond Manderson (ed.), Law and the Visual: Representation, Technologies, and Critique (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), pp. 330-53, 336. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442630321-015
  27. Ian Haywood, Romanticism and Caricature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360020
  28. Haywood, Romanticism and Caricature, p. 9.
  29. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, «Introduction: Claiming Sarah Baartman, a Legacy to Grasp», en Natasha Gordon-Chipembere (ed.).
  30. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French (Durham:Duke University Press, 1999), p. 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382799
  31. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color, p. 155.
  32. Peter Abélard, Les Lettres complètes, quinta carta (París: Garnier frères, 1870 [c. 1119–1142]), pp. 89-90, citado en Sharpley-Whiting, Black Venus, p. 1; traducción de Sharpley-Whiting.
  33. Alan Barbard, Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of Khoisan Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166508
  34. Adrian Koopman, «The Use of the Ethnonym “Hottentot” in the Birdnames “Hottentot Teal” and “Hottentot Buttonquail”», Ostrich 92, n.o 1 (2021), pp. 151-55, 152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2021.1880194
  35. Sharpley-Whiting, Black Venus, p. 7.
  36. Lynda Nead, The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality (Londres: Routledge,1992), p. 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203328194
  37. Barrett, Racial Blackness, p. 216.
  38. Weheliye, Habeas Viscus, p. 90.
  39. Judith Butler, Senses of the Subject (Nueva York: Fordham University Press, 2015), p. 51.