Communities of time, time regimes of the common: the aesthetic project of Luis Oyarzún

Abstract

This article studies the Diario íntimo (1995) by Luis Oyarzún, from the point of view of the theory of the aesthetic community developed by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment. More precisely, I pretend to show how Oyarzún projected a sort of aesthetic education of Hispanic America in order to produce a new conception of their common existence. Hopefully, both concepts of ‘community’ and ‘time regime’ will help us to comprehend, in a different manner, some of the key concepts of Oyarzún’s thinking —vision, titanism, domination, etc.— and, at the same time, appreciate the originality of the aesthetic solution he projected for Hispanic America.