Recently from Walter
May 8th, 2012
DISPATCHES FROM HONG KONG 2: GLOBAL COLONIALITY AND THE “ASIAN CENTURY”
For a long time scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, journalist, artists and curators talked about “modernity.” They found also that their modernity could be expanded and stretched in time (post), in space (peripheral, alternative), hierarchically (subaltern) and later to run parallel to the French version of the World Social Forum: alter-mondisme became [...]
April 21st, 2012
DHELI 2012: LA DESOCCIDENTALIZACION, LOS BRICS Y LA DISTRIBUCION RACIAL DEL CAPITAL
La nota de opinión publicada por LaVaca ha provocado varias e interesantes reacciones y respuestas, algunas se encuentran en la web (en Facebook), otras me llegaron personalmente. Lo que escribo a continuación es una aclaración de mi tesis en esa nota. La única tesis, puesto que es un artículo de 800 palabras y no un [...]
April 17th, 2012
LA DESOCCIDENTALIZACIÓN ES IRREVERSIBLE: LA RENACIONALIZACIÓN DE REPSOL-YPF
El gobierno español anuncia ¨represalias contundentes¨ al gobierno argentino por la nacionalizacion de REPSOL-YPF. Estados Unidos apoya a España y se comporta de acuerdo a hábitos paternalistas. Es dificil para los padres comprender que los chicos crecen. Aunque el tono indica el reconocimiento de que la desoccidentalización es irreversible. Además de informar sobre las represalias, [...]
April 9th, 2012
DISPATCHES FROM HONG KONG: THE MYTHS OF DEMOCRATIC AND AUTHORITARIAN STATES
I have been in Hong Kong since January of 2012, and will remain until June 30, 2012, thanks to an invitation by the Advanced Institute of Cross-Disciplinary Studies of the City University. My first visit to the Eastern Hemisphere (according to Western land and water distribution) was to Korea, in May-June of 2009. My first [...]
March 25th, 2012
NEW STUFF
Click on “New Stuff” to go directly to the links. For several reasons i have been running short of time to keep a regular posting in the blog.I have instead writing op-eds and interviews for different venues. I provide the links here: 1) An op-ed in Spanish, publish in Pagina 12, http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-182727-2011-12-06.html 2) [...]
June 1st, 2011
Decoloniality and the South West
In the Spring of 2011, a workshop on “Decoloniality and the South West” took place at the university of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, organized by assistant professor Michael Trujillo. It was indeed a wonderful experience with participants from several disciplines and academic formations, as well as belonging to diverse ethnic communities that characterize the [...]
May 28th, 2011
The Spirit Returns to the East: Hong-Kong and Decolonial Thinking
The recently inaugurated Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Cross-Disciplinary Studies has “negotiating the past and coloniality” as one of its five general themes of investigation. The first exploratory workshop on “Coloniality and Decolonial Thinking” will take place at the Institute on Junes 3 and 4 of 2011. For more information about the Institute and [...]
April 3rd, 2011
The Collective Project Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality
One of the pleasure of going to the stacks in any library that allows you to go to the stacks, is to find much more than you were looking for. Now, that pleasure is being complemented (not superseded) by the web. It so happened that looking for recent books and articles about “modernity” (a topic [...]
April 3rd, 2011
Decolonial Aesthetics: Manifesto, Exhibit and Workshop
I shall be short in this posting and just send you to the home page of TDI/Transnational Decolonial Institute where you can find the “Decolonial Aesthetics Manifesto” with a preamble that explains its short but interesting history. You will find also other links and references to contextualize the manifesto. Furthermore, there is now available a [...]
April 18th, 2010
Slavery, the Holocaust and the Challenge of Global Justice
A Summer School in Middleburg, Holland, co-directed by Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vazquez http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies/slavery-the-holocaust-and-the-challenge-of-global-justice-exploring-critical-and-decolonial-approaches, followed up by a workshop on Critical and Decolonial Dialogues http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/100215-critical-and-decolonial-dialogues-Final.pdf Both the Seminar and the Workshop are based on a basic assumptions: There are two kind of critics to modernity. One is internal to Europe, from the Frankfurt School to [...]