It’s really nice the personal context around identity/ who you are that you share (I LOVE AQUARIUS) before discussing more some thoughts of Guama Poma. This feeling of likability is interesting and the way that it’s constantly changing according to preferences help by different contexts, company, concern…
I feel we are who we are more than who we say we are,, that action is an embodied representation that’s unavoidable while words and description might carry some incompatibilities, might be in distance from “self”
In regard to Guama Poma, his identity is certainly conflicting and preference of colonial identities so explicitly molds his mask at ‘author’. I hear what you’re saying of survival, it’s interesting to me how our identities and who we say we are and who we actually are is shaped so externally. What of authenticity?
I'm a Capricorn, but I don't know how much of a "Capricorn" I am. But I return to Guamán Poma and your blog: "He curates an identity and performs within those confines" You've made me think about those confines of Guamán Poma, and his degree of agency within his historical moment. Beyond the author's intentions when writing his texts, I want to think that in the debates of his time he wanted to leave an image of himself as a different, possible subjectivity, that went beyond the colonizing conflict.
Hey Orla,
It’s really nice the personal context around identity/ who you are that you share (I LOVE AQUARIUS) before discussing more some thoughts of Guama Poma. This feeling of likability is interesting and the way that it’s constantly changing according to preferences help by different contexts, company, concern…
I feel we are who we are more than who we say we are,, that action is an embodied representation that’s unavoidable while words and description might carry some incompatibilities, might be in distance from “self”
In regard to Guama Poma, his identity is certainly conflicting and preference of colonial identities so explicitly molds his mask at ‘author’. I hear what you’re saying of survival, it’s interesting to me how our identities and who we say we are and who we actually are is shaped so externally. What of authenticity?
Hola Orla!
"To distance oneself from that identity in this context is to distance oneself from active ongoing harm."
The violence Guaman Poma references is both obvert and hidden in the way he frames the plight of the people. I enjoy your framing of the topic.
I'm a Capricorn, but I don't know how much of a "Capricorn" I am. But I return to Guamán Poma and your blog: "He curates an identity and performs within those confines" You've made me think about those confines of Guamán Poma, and his degree of agency within his historical moment. Beyond the author's intentions when writing his texts, I want to think that in the debates of his time he wanted to leave an image of himself as a different, possible subjectivity, that went beyond the colonizing conflict.