Book section · January 1, 2025
This chapter discusses whether cosmopolitanism can be retained in the current global change of era. If so, it can no longer be a top-down universal project maintaining Europe (or the North Atlantic) as the solo point of reference, but it will need to shift ...
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Book section · December 4, 2023
We on the planet are experiencing a change of era, no longer an era of changes. In the era of changes (1500-2000) or the era of the Westernization of the world, changes were linear and within the frame of the colonial matrix of power. The concepts of newne ...
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Book section · January 1, 2023
Walter Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician, philosopher, and literary scholar who has devoted his career to study the historical foundations of the modern/colonial world system and imaginary since 1500. He is a William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Profess ...
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Book section · January 1, 2023
Carl Schmitt traced the emergence and history of the second nomos of the earth from the sixteenth century to the end of WWI. Anibal Quijano traced the history of the colonial matrix of power from the sixteenth century until today. Reading Schmitt from Quij ...
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Book section · January 1, 2023
I argue that “space and the re-configuration of society” is a statement highlighting two Western concepts “space” and “society.” I argue that none of the coexisting civilizations, before 1500, have and care about these two concepts introduced in the vernac ...
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Book section · January 1, 2021
This chapter provides a postscript to the volume as a whole. Beginning with an account of the universalization of modern Western temporalities and notions of time, the chapter goes on to describe the “rhetoric of modernity,” a key term in this analysis. Th ...
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Book section · January 1, 2019
In the colonies the capitalist regime “constantly comes up against the obstacle presented by the producer, who, as owner of his own conditions of labour, employs that labour to enrich himself instead of the capitalist.” The excesses committed by Spanish “c ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
The issue at stake is social classification, which includes social class. Racism is not exactly what catches the eye. On the surface, racism is a question of content and identification based on biological markers (blood, skin color, hair, and nose shape, a ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
Border thinking or theorizing emerged from and as a response to the violence (frontiers) of imperial/territorial epistemology and the rhetoric of modernity (and globalization) of salvation that continues to be implemented on the assumption of the inferiori ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
In the late 20th century I explored the meaning of the ‘Western Hemisphere’ in the colonial horizon of modernity. Today, in the first decades of the 21st century, the economic and political fields of power are rapidly being re-oriented. The expression is m ...
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Book section · 2015
Revised reprint of original essay published in Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/59 ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
Mignolo, Walter D. (2017) ‘Coloniality Is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality’ Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 43(1) (1 March): 38–45. ...
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Book section · January 1, 2012
Think of two parallel lines. They do not touch each other. My paper is an argument to connect two such lines. One line is ethnicity and race; the other, cultures of scholarship. The question is simply one of knowledge and human interest. Since this is not ...
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Book section · January 1, 2012
The limits of the “Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen” and the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” The 500 years of “rights” (from Rights of the People, to the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) ...
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Book section · January 1, 2012
For this volume I was asked for a contribution on Antonio Gramsci in Latin America. To focus on Gramsci without examining the intellectual and political environment in which he was translated, read, used and discussed would be a sort of anti-Gramscian ende ...
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Book section · 2007
The exhibit "Geopolitics of Animation" was planned around this article. The article has been translated into Spanish and it appears on page 12-39. Also published in the same catalog the original version, on page 90-116. ...
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