This seminar will explore practices of sense-making from the Global South, with a particular focus on Latin America & the Caribbean. Sense-making is the entangled exercise of critical sensing and critical thought that is not founded on the Western logo-centric practice of reason, but rather on an embodied, relational and cosmological sentir-pensar (Escobar). Our current planetary crisis -at ecological, political, economic, and subjective scales- has pushed practitioners of numerous Western disciplines to rethink the contours of their fields, while sites of modern Western knowledge production more broadly have begun to recognize the fault lines of logocentric, instrumental reason. The seminar will address our cosmopolitical present through the study of critical interventions built through forms of expression not anchored exclusively on the Western understanding of reason, as we learn with and through images, performances, singing and texts as different but equal forms of sense-making, that other worlds, of entanglement and solidarity, exist and are possible. We will engage the work of Caístulo, Gustavo Caboco, Paz Encina, Arturo Escobar, Malcom Ferdinand, Ana Gallardo, Verónica Gago, Lorgia García-Peña, Ailton Krenak, Davi Kopenawa, Las Nietas del Nonó, Francia Marquez, Beatriz Nascimento, Grace Passo, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Rita Segato, Maboula Soumahoro, Denetem Touam Bona, Sylvia Wynter, Dani Zelko.

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