What are we going to do as students in the high prestige departments of Masters and Doctorate education in NYU to systematically change a high powered global institution from within, and how then will we share this with other universities in the United States, and ones imitating the US higher education system globally? For my […]
différance
Trying to examine the stitching of Cusicanqui’s text is maddening. Closing in on the detail of one stitch, for example the dyad chi’ixi-chhixi, I lose track of the of the greater weave. The only way is to move in and out, view the taypi from nearer and farther, in endless alternations of perspective. The wak’as […]
The Power of Duality in an Age of Globalization
I want to address a thread that runs through all three texts: the connection between dualism and globalization. In “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America,” Quijano delineates and challenges the logic of Eurocentrism, which has a particular “perspective on knowledge” formalized through “a peculiar articulation between dualism (capital-precapital, Europe-non-Europe, primitive-civilized, traditional-modern, etc.) and a […]