Epistemic Syncretism: The Self as a Site for Inquiryby Yecid Ortega PhD
This second issue introduces Epistemic Syncretism, a concept born from Yecid's lived navigation of multiple worlds such as Catholicism, Indigenous cosmovisions, artistic practice, and academic research. Moving beyond interdisciplinarity, Epistemic Syncretism names the dynamic and often uneasy interweaving of spiritual, artistic, and rational ways of knowing. Drawing on pluriversality and posthumanism, it challenges the universalizing tendencies of Western epistemology by affirming knowledge as relational, embodied, and always plural. Through personal vignettes (a noise music album deconstructing Catholic prayer, the Indigenous concept of Puququy (thinking with the heart), and the transformation of an academic rejection letter into blackout poetry) the zine illustrates how knowing emerges from the entanglements of memory, affect, and critique. Ultimately, it proposes the self as a vital site for decolonial and epistemic inquiry, where fractures and frictions become generative spaces for new understanding.
Keywords
academia, publications, qualitative research, epistemic syncretism, zines
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