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present, or future experiences catch up to them so they can be lived.
Some questions need enough life to be felt before they can be
spoken.
And then there are others, my favorites: the ones that flee from any
fixed, given answer, those that only want to live among the branches
of our contradictions.
There are also others that are favorites to me, those containing a
maternal-ontological breath, an originary pulse that was never
entirely erased and still seeks to open space between careful skins.
There are nomadic questions that do not cling, that move while
leaving traces in every encounter.
Some questions stay so close that you could brush against them with
your shoulder; they are like small animals seeking warmth.
There are others that can only be reached if we follow their trail with
the faintest scent-movement, almost like groping in the dark;
something shifts there: they deterritorialized us, pull us from the
fixed memories we thought we were, or perhaps reterritorialized us
in a new place, an unexpected ground where something roots again.
There are those other questions that tug at my Schizo-Collective
gaze; they flee from deductive answers, they make invitations to
“between-worlds,” to zones where no identity is closed or
guaranteed, because everything is in coexistence, in translation, in
mestizaje of meanings.
Questions are perhaps imaginative acts, acts of resistance, defenses against our
pains, our structural violences, the obligatory orders, the linearities that demand
obedience. Questions are not a trajectory; they are territories and deterritories in
movement, choices and influences of freedom, forms of life.
Questions from our Souths are the ones that move through our markets, our
My Fascination with Inquiry
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