Ultimately, can the “will to feel” transform us and the toxic world we inhabit in the 21st century? I’m posing the “will to feel” as a mode that reasserts the imaginary within the decolonial. Overall, the real without the imaginary lacks vision and affirms a two- dimensional, uninspired ontology and epistemology. The imagination, after all, is the door to creativity, to other ways of being and knowing. And yet, we cannot have theory without method we cannot have a materialist, grounded “real” critique without the affective body, without the people who feel, who touch, who experience and imagine other ways of being. As a deconstructive tool, does the decolonial necessarily expose colonial powers, structures, laws, and institutions? What are the flaws of a decolonial theory that regards a materialist perspective while occluding the spirit of the mind and body? It is as if the method and the theory exist in parallel universes, never to touch or entice each other but instead battle in a false binary.
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