Thursday, 2 June 2005, 7:30 p.m.
The Decolonial Turnaround and Geopolitics of Knowledge
Lecture
With
Walter D. Mignolo (Lecturer)The decolonial turnaround is a criticism of modernity based on colonialism and, as such, is its uncompromising difference with Euro-centric critical theories. Its genealogy originates at the same time in which the colonial matrix of power was born, in the 16th century.
The author holds that the forms of production of knowledge are and have been a form of colonial domination, because, like the economy and politics, knowledge has also been historically organised according to centres of power and subordinate regions.
Auditorium of Fundació Antoni Tąpies
Free entrance
The conference will be in spanish
The lecture is organised with the KRTU (Cultura, Recerca, Tecnologia, Universals) centre, of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat (Autonomous Government of Catalonia)