Author:
Pablo Mora Calderón
Publishing house:
Idartes
Publication Date:
2018
This text highlights the conditions, practices, systems, and representations underlying a worldview that results from this intertwining. Visualization, not understood as a social construct but as a social visual construction, refers not only to what native peoples see, define, practice, and represent but also to what they see, say, and do with the images produced by others and with those produced by themselves.
Author:
Pablo Mora Calderón
Publishing house:
Idartes
Publication date:
2018
This text highlights the conditions, practices, systems, and representations underlying a worldview that results from this intertwining. Visualization, not understood as a social construct but as a social visual construction, refers not only to what native peoples see, define, practice, and represent but also to what they see, say, and do with the images produced by others and with those produced by themselves.
Published in 1960, La Calle 10 is a novel by Manuel Zapata Olivella set in Bogotá. In this city, the author of this work lived when studying Medicine amidst the reigning atmosphere of the misery of those years that, in turn, would be the proper scenario for the explosion of violence after Jorge Eliecer Gaitán's death on April 9, 1948.
The amazement of witnessing entire civilizations that resulted foreign to the European construct, together with the variety of plants and animals, and the outrageous amount of gold and precious stones complemented by the thrill and fear of facing death in every corner, must have been so sharp and deep for conquerors that they had to improvise their very own style and wording to give an account of everything they saw.