Viveiros de Castro takes as start point the Amerindian perspectivism and animism for proposing a decolonization of knowledge, that’s why more than an object of study, he consider its philosophical status, that could challenge our Western knowledge structures. The point of departure is the consideration that all beings, human or no-human are persons, as all … Continue reading Cannibal Metaphysics
2010
La colonialidad: la cara oculta de la modernidad
Mignolo addresses here the relationship between colonialism and modernity through the concept of transmodernity, also linked to the category of decolonial cosmopolitanism, associated by the author to organizations and individual activists who struggle for an emancipatory and heterogeneous thinking, giving a significant place to museums of contemporary art. I think this is a particularly interesting … Continue reading La colonialidad: la cara oculta de la modernidad
