Interstices between Cultural Modernity and Countercultural Postmodernity in the Venezuelan Context

Abstract

This investigative note moves the polysemies that confront the backgrounds and forms of Eurocentric and decolonial rationalities, since they accuse each other of backward or futuristic nineteenth-century positions of progress from the discursive practices of cultural modernity and countercultural postmodernity. At these extremes, the recognition of the mestizo origin and the intention to simplify it, the invisibility of the Hispanic against the current of the Americo-original, the supremacy of the maroon as overcoming the Afro-descendant from the categorization of white anthropology take place. Likewise, they come categorically for the benefit of a resemantization of Ibero-American history through the incessant search for what is ours, otherness and its possibilities as a decolonial turn that place the meanings of the cultural, patrimonial, historical in the new rationalities and ruptures beyond the brown, the black, the zambo, the mulatto, the white, problematized since Bonfil Batalla, Vasconcelos, Pratts, Bauman, among others.