Note: the lecture was given in Spanish. The video is presenting a simultaneous translation to English.
COVID-19 arrives riding on a crisis of multiple interconnected dimensions that place humanity in a civilizing emergency. At the heart of the problem is a way of conceiving the economy, politics and culture at war with life. The magnitude of the problem is such that we are at a crossroads where the options that are taken determine the decent survival of most human beings and many other living beings. Imagining horizons of desire that may be compatible with the material conditions that make them possible is an urgent task. Ecofeminisms, decoloniality and the gaze of those that have historically been subjugated can make this imagination possible.
