Thoughts on modernity/coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, border thinking, pluriversality, and the decolonial option.
A book by Margaret Kohn and Keally McBride titled Political Theories of Decolonization. Postcolonialism and the Problems of Foundations (Oxford University Press, 2011), was recommended to me. I began to read it with great interest, because of the topic, and soon realized that due attention has been given to recent theoretical unfolding in decolonial thinking […]
Continue Reading »Be.Bop 2012. Black Europe Body-Politics, Berlin, was the third event in the series of Decolonial Aesthetics exhibits and workshops. The first took place in Bogota in November of 2010 (catalog is available on line, Estéticas Descoloniales, Bogotá). The second at Duke in May of 2011. The third one in Berlin in May of 2012. In […]
Continue Reading »Ohio University Press just released the book i have co-authored with Madina Tlostanova. The arguments advanced here complement Madina’s explorations on Gender Epistemologies in the Eurasian Borderlands (2010). For my part, this book is a bridge between Local Histories/Global Designs. Coloniality, Subaltern Knoweldges and Border Thinking (2000, the second edition with a new Preface will […]
Continue Reading »In a previous posting I advanced a general reflection on democratic and authoritarian states. Here is the first of various examples I shall post in the future to reflect on the “myths” at hand. For the argument that follows—and to dispel the myths of democratic, socialists and authoritarian states, it should be kept in mind […]
Continue Reading »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 […]
Continue Reading »Este articulo puede ser traducido a casi 72 lenguas 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 […]
Continue Reading »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, […]
Continue Reading »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 […]
Continue Reading »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 […]
Continue Reading »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 […]
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