A casual comment on a minor article in a provincial newspaper in a faraway country (Ukraine) got me going on a response to what is, essentially, the white world’s default position on all things racial. (Social media comments, as a rule, aren’t indicative of anything, but this one is so symptomatic it’s worth examining.) The […]
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The “what does it have to do with me?” defense
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged colonialism, coloniality, Decolonization, genocide, George Floyd protests, Mignolo, modernity, racism, slavery, Ukraine, United States, US history, white privilege, whiteness, xenophilia, xenophobia on June 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged amodernism, Chernobyl, ecology, Latour, Mignolo, postcolonialism, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, Zone on December 1, 2013 | 6 Comments »
My upcoming talk at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs comes from the East European strand of my research. The talk will be called “Becoming Tuteishyi: Peregrinations in the Zona of Ukraine, with Walter, Gloria, Andrei, Bruno, and Other Explorers.” The description reads as follows: Drawing on the author’s research and travels, […]
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