Decolonial Theories and Practices

Professor Diana Taylor


  • Introduction: Decolonial Heartbeats
  • Sobremesa Pedagogy: A Roundtable on the Feast
  • Being With
  • Embodied Practices for Moving through Audio-Visual Colonization
  • Desborde: Overflow and the Politics of Resistance
  • P.S. Pedagogy of Stones: An Exercise in Several Voices
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Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Things who fall; Newton’s 2nd Law

Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by jessicas


Meet me in the middle of the air  and if these wings don’t fail me  I will meet you anywhere  aint no grave can hold my body down…  -Odetta, Aint no grave     To describe the relationship between a body and forces acting upon it we must discuss how a body falls in space. […]

Posted on October 29, 2018October 29, 2018

nonhuman turning; no settlements/no borders

Posted on October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 by jessicas


I am a vine                                     creeping down the moon                     I have no keeper –   There is no settling for the nonhuman. It is always turning, forever in […]

Posted on October 14, 2018October 14, 2018

upside-down and under the spell

Posted on October 14, 2018October 14, 2018 by jessicas


Living in the upside-down of time as linear discourse is the product of a hegemonic idea deeply rooted in colonialism. Who can say how time ends and begins?  This is a decision made by the powers of domination which reverberate like the church bells marking every hour… For Cusicanqui we perform our commitment to modernity […]

Posted on September 30, 2018October 3, 2018

manifesting between the gap

Posted on September 30, 2018October 3, 2018 by jessicas


Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete Proving nature’s laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams it learned 2 breathe fresh air Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared! -Tupac In […]

Posted on September 23, 2018September 30, 2018

seeing through the binding lightness

Posted on September 23, 2018September 30, 2018 by jessicas


Amie Césaire asks us to unpack what colonization appears to be; it doesn’t come from the desire to liberate, or to educate others, nor is it a project undertaken for an evangelical savior—colonization is a form of civilization which feels entitled to encroach and encompass the entirety of the world under its “baleful projected shadow” […]