Strange Tastes
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Alicia Borinsky
Author_Monique Roelofs
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Clarice Lispector
Claudia Llosa
decolonial aesthetics
democratization
Diamela Eltit
disinterest
disinterested play
Enlightenment
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
forthcoming
freedom
Gayatri Spivak
gender
Gloria Anzaldua
Hume
institutions
intimacy
Jorge Luis Borges
Julio Cortazar
Kant
Maria Lugones
marketplace
modernity
normativity
Pinochet
play
pleasure
poverty
public worldmaking
relationality
storytelling
subjectivity
temporality
transculturation
trauma
Walter Benjamin
Product details
- ISBN 9781478038658
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space instead of surrendering it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. Joining notions of sensibility grounded in Enlightenment aesthetics with the creative capabilities of a decolonial aesthetics, Roelofs looks to practices that animate the public through intimate, social, and political registers, particularly by engaging the historical and critical potentialities of disinterested play and what she calls “strange tastes,” or the unusual, uncanny, and nonnormative desires and sensations of marginalized individuals. Through sustained attention to materiality and lived experience, Roelofs offers a feminist philosophy of aesthetics that takes seriously the role of the public, where strange tastes turn aesthetic imaginaries into powerful possibilities to remake self, city, nation, and world.
Monique Roelofs is Professor and Chair of Philosophy of Art & Culture and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Arts of Address and The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic and co-editor of Black Art and Aesthetics.
