Contemporaneity as Points of Connection

Marina Gržinić and Walter Mignolo, “De-linking Epistemology from Capital and Pluri-Versality: A Conversation with Walter Mignolo, Part 3,” Reartikulacija, no. 6 (2009), 7; →.

As Ramón Grosfoguel explains: “Peripheral nation-states and non-European people live today under the regime of ‘global coloniality’ imposed by the United States through the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), the Pentagon, and NATO. . . I use the word ‘colonialism’ to refer to ‘colonial situations’ enforced by the presence of a colonial administration such as the period of classical colonialism. . . . I use ‘coloniality’ to address ‘colonial situations’ in the present period in which colonial administrations have almost been eradicated from the capitalist world-system. By ‘colonial situations’ I mean the cultural, political, sexual, and economic oppression/exploitation of subordinate racialized/ethnic groups by dominant racial/ethnic groups with or without the existence of colonial administrations.” “Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality: Decolonizing Political Economy and Postcolonial Studies,” Eurozine, April 7, 2008, →.

Nicolas Bourriaud, “Altermodern Manifesto,” written for the 2009 Tate Triennial (Tate Britain, London), →.

Irit Rogoff, “Academy as Potentiality,” in A.C.A.D.E.M.Y., ed. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff (Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2006); available online at →. This book was published as part of an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by the Siemens Arts Program in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Goldsmiths College in London, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde and the End of the Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 8.

“Transmodernity is the Latin American philosopher of liberation Enrique Dussel’s utopian project to transcend the Eurocentric version of modernity... Instead of a single modernity centred in Europe and imposed as a global design to the rest of the world, Dussel argues for a multiplicity of decolonial critical responses to Eurocentered modernity from the subaltern cultures and epistemic location of colonized people around the world.” In Grosfoguel, “Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality.”

Walter Mignolo, “Coloniality: The Darker Side of Modernity,” in Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, ed. Sabine Breitwieser (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2009), 42; available online at →. As an example of “altermodernity,” Mignolo cites Bourriaud’s “Altermodern Manifesto” (see note 3).

Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002), xii.

Marina Gržinić and Walter Mignolo, “De-linking Epistemology from Capital and Pluri-Versality: A Conversation with Walter Mignolo, Part 2,” Reartikulacija, no. 5 (2008), 21; →.