Thoughts on modernity/coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, border thinking, pluriversality, and the decolonial option.
The piece below was written in rsponse to a question formulated by Arturo Escobar, Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser. Marisol, Mario and Arturo are starting a project investigating the various uses of the concept of ¨pluriverse.¨ They asked me how I stumbled into the concept and how I used and use it. In [...]
Continue Reading »This video interview was run by Rod Sachs, in the Summer of 2012. Rod was an advanced undergraduate student at the University of Texas in San Antonio, where i met him during a week at the University where i was the UTSA Distinguished Brackenridge Visiting Lecture. That was in March. The summer of the same [...]
Continue Reading »SENSING OTHERWISE A Story of an Exhibition In this text, Walter Mignolo turns a visit to Let the Guest Be the Master, an exhibition by artist Hayv Kahraman at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York (10th September to 11th October 2013), into a narrative that explores the relationship between a viewer and the work of [...]
Continue Reading »Louis Yako has fired an enlightening broadside from his graduate student´s experience, calling our attention to were the university as we know it today is heading. Since the classic book by Bill Readings (The University in Ruins, 1996), scholars have been proactive in alerting all of us on universities’ corporate turn. But it was less [...]
Continue Reading »I am in Johannesburg (August 2013) at CISA. Most evenings, coming back from the university, enjoying a drive and conversation with Dilip, director of the Center, I stop at Mike´s Kitchen. Nothing fancy but good food. Grilled calamari, grilled chicken, grilled filet, fresh salad, steamy vegetable, and a decent Pinotage by the glass, makes it [...]
Continue Reading »The special issue of Social Text-Periscope on Decolonial AestheSis co-edited by Rolando Vazquez and myself, is up and running. As i write this note there are still a few contributions to be uploaded. But it is almost there. These issue shows the global scope of Decolonial Aesthesis from Hong Kong, Singapore Korea and Taiwan, from [...]
Continue Reading »On Friday, July 9th, i was listening Diane Rhem Show´s in the radio. The topic Edward Snowden and declarations made by Vladimir Putin to the journalist. According to one of the person participating in the dialogue, Putin made two contradictory statements. One of them has been widely distributed and occupies many of the news title. [...]
Continue Reading »To the ongoing debate on Trayvon Martin and the ongoing racism and supremacy, i invite you to listen to James Baldwin thrilling speech, a speech that got Cambridge Students audience on their feet after being mesmerized and glued to his words and body during 22 or so minutes of Baldwin brilliancy. If you do not [...]
Continue Reading »I always ask my students, grad and undergraduate, for the mid-term “exam”, to write a letter to whomever they wish. It should be an educated person who is a little bit familiar with the topic, or not necessarily. The question is to explain “in your own words” (and not to hide behind textual commentaries or [...]
Continue Reading »Polonia recientemente se ha unido a otros países Europeos (Bélgica, Gran Bretaña, Bulgaria, Francia, Alemania, Irlanda y Eslovaquia) que prohibieron el maíz Mon810, de Monsanto. La empresa es conocida globalmente como proveedora de productos de agricultura y por producir también el glisofato y el Roundup. También es productora de semillas genéticamente modificadas. Todo ello hace [...]
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