On the (im)possibility of listening to oneself

The second volume in the Listening Pamphlets series is a deeply heartfelt and courageous reflection by María del Rosario Acosta López on the challenges and urgencies of listening to oneself.

Originally delivered as a talk on questions of isolation, the essay brings critical attention to what it means to carry trauma, offering an intellectually rigorous and personal account, which adds to the author's ongoing work on "grammars of listening" in situations of violence.

María del Rosario Acosta López is a Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies in UC Riverside. She was until very recently Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. Before that she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. She obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Colombian National University in 2007, and was a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, between 2013 and 2014. She conducts work on historical memory with survivors of police torture in Chicago and with survivors of political violence in Colombia.