Los Sentipensantes

Un Curriculo Explratorio Que Aborda Transgresiones Politicas y Culturales en la Sociedad Colombiana

Abstract

An exploratory curriculum called “los sentipensantes” is introduced using microhistories, short stories, Irish parodies and performative acts that attempt to produce new consensus and knowledge in daily life, what Frantz Fanon once called liberating transformations of the everyday (Fanon, 1963). The theoretical framework is based on research first presented by the Colombian Orlando Fals Borda and the Palestinian-American Edward Said that suggests that changes in the structural conditions of society (political, economic, social and cultural) will never occur as a result of mere ideology and that the truth is never afraid to participate in the creation of new thought and understanding in the universe. Above all, this article contends that we must come to accept that ideology and theory just may not be enough in our new post-truth world. When Salman Rush die’s protagonist Quichotte tells us in a weak voice “visions and other phantasmagoria are to be expected”, one of his characters, Lance Makioka, soon adds: “the surreal and even the absurd, now potentially offer the most accurate descriptors of real life” (Rushdie, 2019, pp. 193, 222)