Coloniality of sensing informs the modern/colonial ways of worlding leading to reinstatement of the nature/culture divide and the predominance of visuality and representation over other modes of perception and engagement such as sound, smell or touch. There is a growing number of critical art forms attempting decolonial re-existence through aesthesis, revamping these marginalised affective impulses as well as bringing forward the intertwined ecocritical concerns and the critique of technological coloniality. These shifts are eroding and broadening the traditional decolonial agendas in the direction of a more comprehensive critical outlook striving to address the complexity of the crisis we inhabit. 

Madina Tlostanova is a feminist thinker and fiction writer, professor of gender studies at Linköping University. Her interests include decoloniality, the post-socialist human condition and critical future studies.