A Decolonial Ethics-Aesthetics of Care

The current planetary context reveals an urgency to create a philosophy committed to our world. In this context, and building upon Latin-American intellectual history, this chapter develops a proposition that is both theoretical and practical: the aesthetics of care. This proposition is built upon the imaginary dimension of our lives and, therefore, of the crises, particularly those raised by the Anthropocene epoch. This proposition involves practicing the situated thought in different registers, which will be developed throughout the text. In summary, it involves sentipensar the crisis, that is, not only thinking about it but feeling it at the same time, treating both acts with equal importance. The chapter is organized into two parts. On the one hand, a decolonial reading on the ethics of care is presented, articulated in three axes: the human condition understood as vulnerable, the dynamics of attention and inattentiveness typical of the modern world-system, and the contextualization of decision-making. On the other hand, the proposition of an aesthetics of care is described along two axes: firstly, the understanding of aesthetics from a decolonial perspective, and finally, the development of my own practice of the aesthetics of care through theater.