Dreaming Technologies/Political-poetical incantation in le Louvre

It is, at the very least, paradoxical
to hear from the very countries
that created industrialization
that the territories of Abya Yala
should be a little more ecological,
recycle a little more

The arrogance with which
the industrialized countries
continue to speak to the territories
that have resisted the impositions
of a world they themselves invented—
that arrogance must end

From humility,
they must begin with listening.
they must begin with understanding
that we have endured centuries
of their unidirectional forms—
hierarchical, self-absorbed—
before they can begin to see
that we do not need more of their human sciences,
their anthropologies

We do not need more
of their definitions.
of their institutions
of non-relation

We need instead
to begin to embrace ourselves with the wind
We need instead affections,
and forms that are foreign
to self-enclosure—
the very enclosure upon which “progress”
keeps arriving in the territories of Abya Yala,
with the arrogance of believing
it already carries the answers.

Epistemologies of the South, ecology, decolonization—
all necessary and important terms
for the West,
but not for the peoples and territories
who already inhabit a matrix
that does not begin from Western problems
as its foundation

Extractivism is not only a mineral operation.
It is also the imposition of external debt
upon the territories plundered
by the powers of the beautiful.

The challenge of institutionality:
an institution without institution.

What would it mean
to imagine
a museum without museum?

If the master’s tools
never dismantled the master’s house,
what then of the territorial matrix
of our gatherings?

The questions to the stolen guardians,
today vitrined
as multicultural treasures,
as signs of racial integration,
as patrimonies of the nation,
as prides of identity.

Each display
a justification of the discipline
that contains them,
and in containing,
forgets
what they were guarding.

We seek to weave ourselves as an assembly of peoples and arts
We seek to weave ourselves as sentient infrastructures
As cosmomorphic legislations