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The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch

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Mignolo, WD
Published in: Theory, Culture and Society
December 1, 2020

I argue that the lived experience we, the human species, are going through in 2020 is no longer an epoch of changes but a change of epoch. Post-pandemic (and any other areas of experience you could post-) is becoming meaningless in a change of epoch. My argument is based on the history of the colonial matrix of power rather than in particular thematic histories which, in this case, will be the history of pandemics and the history of the economy. Both are working together, globally now, and entangled in the colonial matrix of power, which can not be found in the origin of the universe, in Babylon or in Greece. It did not exist until the 16th century in the Atlantic, the Black and the White, the North and the South. The logic of coloniality is the logic of the invisible and it is by understanding its historical foundation, its unfolding and the radical transformations in the past two decades, that the signs of the change of epoch can be perceived and understood.

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Theory, Culture and Society

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1460-3616

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0263-2764

Publication Date

December 1, 2020

Volume

37

Issue

7-8

Start / End Page

205 / 218

Related Subject Headings

  • General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
  • 4702 Cultural studies
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1608 Sociology
 

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Mignolo, W. D. (2020). The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch. Theory, Culture and Society, 37(7–8), 205–218. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420957741
Mignolo, W. D. “The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch.” Theory, Culture and Society 37, no. 7–8 (December 1, 2020): 205–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420957741.
Mignolo WD. The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch. Theory, Culture and Society. 2020 Dec 1;37(7–8):205–18.
Mignolo, W. D. “The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch.” Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 37, no. 7–8, Dec. 2020, pp. 205–18. Scopus, doi:10.1177/0263276420957741.
Mignolo WD. The Logic of the In-Visible: Decolonial Reflections on the Change of Epoch. Theory, Culture and Society. 2020 Dec 1;37(7–8):205–218.
Journal cover image

Published In

Theory, Culture and Society

DOI

EISSN

1460-3616

ISSN

0263-2764

Publication Date

December 1, 2020

Volume

37

Issue

7-8

Start / End Page

205 / 218

Related Subject Headings

  • General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
  • 4702 Cultural studies
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1608 Sociology