Decolonial Thinking And Revolutionary Events Virtual Conference – March 8th & 9th
Photo courtesy of Zine El Abidine Mezaoui Goldsmiths’ Centre for Postcolonial Studies is hosting Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events conference on March 8th and 9th, 2023. In the last decades, decolonial thinking has been reterritorializing corners of academia, producing a series of dislocations in our relationship to knowledge and political discourse. In doing so, it has exposed…
Algerians’ Anti-French Attitude: A Postcolonial Reaction?
Last month, Algeria hosted the 19th edition of the Mediterranean Games in the city of Oran. One particular incident that marked this event was when Algerian fans in the stadium— mostly young people—who were watching a football match during which Algeria was playing against France, lacked respect for the French team by whistling their national…
Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America
To be an American, picking your way through the debris field of what used to be, at least nominally, a democracy—before Trump and his confederacy of dunces defiled, corrupted, plundered, pimped, sabotaged, and otherwise destabilized it from within—is to live in a nation permanently on edge, a nation whose nervous system has been short-circuited by…
Nomen est Omen: When Your Name Says the Quiet Part Loud
What do names tell us about people — and what should we have known about Trump? Nominative determinism: the gift that keeps giving. The term, coined by the British science journalist John Hoyland, in a 1994 New Scientist column, refers to the (purely hypothetical) tendency to pursue a calling or, more broadly, embody an attribute…
IT IS A CHANGE OF ERA, NO LONGER THE ERA OF CHANGES.
What is bringing about the change of era is not a “transition” but the “explosions” in all corners of the planet where modernity/coloniality generated turbulences, dissatisfactions, and conflicts. Explosion is the key word to understand the changes in the era of changes that promises “newness”, from the change of era. In the change of era the foundations are trembling. In the era of changes, the foundation remains solid, and the changes are in the surface. Indeed, the changes maintain the foundations. In the scenario of the change of era, the prefix “post” and the noun “transition”, equally foundational during the past era of changes, are emptied of their significance. They are out of place because the change of era is no longer “new” or “post” but something else.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events
Goldsmiths, University of London, March 8 and 9, 2023, London In the last decades, decolonial thinking has been reterritorializing corners of academia, producing a series of dislocations in our relationship to knowledge and socially constructed reality. In doing so, it has exposed the imprints of coloniality on thinking whilst looking for avenues to rid experience…
