Here is the intro of the book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Pattel and Jason W. Moore. The authors, writing from another field, analyze the same set of quandaries that we were tackling in our discussion on coloniality and the decolonial turn during our first session.

Their concept of frontier can illuminate the idea of where and how the rehearsals and practices of coloniality take place. They do a great work tracing the colonial impulse of Christopher Columbus.

Their analysis of “cheap things” can also be connected to Aimé Césaire’s equation: colonization=’thingification.’