ECOLOGIZING AND DIALOGIZING DECOLONIAL, POSTHUMANIST AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES IN ORDER TO (RE)THINK LANGUAGE

After the pandemic we went through, we were impelled, perhaps forcibly, to reflect about where our relation with the planet and nature stands. Therefore it is urgent to think of new modes of life, different from the ones previously lived/imposed. Decoloniality, on one hand, urges us to examine the colonial effects and traces over non-white/European bodies and knowledges, specially those of latino, black and indigenous peoples, in order to remove them from subalternity and rescue them to a position of legitimacy. Posthumanism, on another hand, questions more deeply what it means to "be human", understanding this figure as one immersed in a complex network of relations with nonhuman entities. Both projects intersect, according to Sousa and Pessoa (2019), when they see in indigenous ontoepistemologies ways for a more just coexistence among human and nonhuman entities. Backed by the idea of ecology of knowledges (SANTOS, 2007) and interepistemic dialogs (NASCIMENTO, 2017), the aim of this text is to "ecologize/dialogize" elaborations by authors who think and write about decoloniality, posthumanism and indigenous ontoepistemologies and cosmologies, so as to reflect on a (new) concept of language.