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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 Now, that pleasure is being complemented (not superseded) by the web.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 [...]

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 [...]

El PIEB (Proyecto Investigaciones Estratégicas de Bolivia) acaba de publicar electrónicamente una serie de entrevistas realizadas durante el Cuarto Encuentro Internacional del Grupo Barlovento celebrado en La Paz del 18 al 24 de mayo, el cual permitió importantes escenarios de diálogo, reflexión y aproximación en torno a la historia y el presente de los afro [...]

Silvia Ribeiro es investigadora y directora de gestion de ETC group con base en Mexico. ETC group equivale a Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. El programa se dedica a investigar en pro del avance sustantable de la diversidad ecologica y de los derechos humanos. Su ultimo articulo publicado en ALAI, America Latina en [...]

In two of my previous postings I argued for the need of specific type of transformations in the philosophy of education within the existing system and history of the university; history that I have outlined elsewhere. Within the existing system research toward non-capitalist economies shall be encourage as well as research that unveils the devastating [...]

En “Otros Bicentenarios” La caída de la “Calle Wall”(Wall Street) reproduce, casi veinte años despues, la caída del “Muro de Berlin”(Berlin Wall). En realidad, el paralelo no debe sorprendernos. Ambos, el “el capitalismo real”y el “socialismo real”son hijos mellizos herederos de la ilustración y de la secularización en la historia de occidente. El estado-nación secular [...]

Mis comentarios sobre “Eurocentrism 21st Century: The King and the Colonial Vassal”provocaron algunas reacciones immediatas. Una de ellas, pregunta por qué escribo en inglés sobre estos temas. En los próximos días traduciré el artículo al castellano y responderé a esta pregunta. En lo que sigue, hago algunas aclaraciones dirigidas a preguntas y objeciones que se [...]

A while ago, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek stated that when someone says Eurocentrism “every self-respecting postmodern leftist intellectual has as violent a reaction as Joseph Goebbels had to culture: to reach for a gun, hurling accusations of proto-fascist Eurocentrist cultural imperialism.” However, he asked himself, “is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the [...]