In eighties Boaventura de Sousa Santos proposed a change heading the overcoming of the separation between natural sciences and social sciences, between those objects that has been studied and those subjects that study them. This separation is the core of the colonial nature of our academic knowledge. The scientific rigour quatify, and doing that dequalify. … Continue reading A discourse about sciences (in Spanish)
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Cannibal Metaphysics
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
The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness
In Gilroy’s book, the culture of the Black Atlantic is characterized as a field of tensions and exchange that blurs the possible origins, essences and nationalities of a large variety of manifestations and producers (from black modernities to hip-hop): black communities from the US, UK, Western Africa or the Caribbean. Black Atlantic culture, in turn, … Continue reading The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness
Escadrons de la mort, l’école française
French journalist Marie-Monique Robin explores the terrible French colonial past during the Cold War and the decisive role armed forces played in the conceptualization and dissemination of the counter-subversive war. France’s withdrawal from Indochina (1954), where some of its troops had started to develop techniques to fight the “internal enemy”, encouraged the perception of the … Continue reading Escadrons de la mort, l’école française
The Wretched of the Earth
Original title and edition: Les Damnés de la terre, Éditions Maspero, 1961. From his commitment “to the African revolution” (title of the posthumous book collecting letters and articles, 1964) and his psychiatric knowledge of the trauma caused by (anti)colonial violence in Algeria, Martinican author Franz Fanon affirms the need for violence in the process of … Continue reading The Wretched of the Earth
Abstract expressionism as cultural critique
Craven argues that the reading of Abstract Expressionism as reflective of Cold War politics in its reinforcement of US imperialist discourse overlooks the decentred, subversive and radical side of this movement. This he explains is reflected in the multicultural roots of AE and the artists interest in non-western art plus the fact that many of … Continue reading Abstract expressionism as cultural critique