Calendar

ALL EVENTS OF ‘THINKING TOGETHER’ ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC AND WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.

Saturday, August 2, 2014
Osthang campus
seminar, lecture, film program
registration required

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1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
seminar ‘decoloniality and border thinking: perspectives on a pluricentric world’
hosted by Madina Tlostanova (RU), Walter Mignolo (AR/US) and Catherine Walsh (EC)
» Osthang: workshop house

8 p.m.
preview lecture Bernard Lietaer: The future of money
» Osthang: hall

9 p.m.
film program
» Osthang: workshop house

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One of the devastating consequences of modernity is a consistent cultivation and maintaining of the economic, social, cultural, ethical, epistemic and ontological bondage or, in decolonial terms, a global coloniality of power, of being and last but not least, of knowledge. Therefore decolonizing knowledge and learning to unlearn in order to relearn on other than modern/colonial grounds is the central task for border thinking marked by the shift in the established geography of reason from its Western place contaminated by the hubris of the zero point to various intersecting liminal and exterior positions marked by the color of skin (and hence the color of reason), by gender, sexuality, religion, by the geopolitics and body-politics of knowledge, of being, of perception. Today’s world more and more openly celebrates and endorses its universal pluriversality in which the principle of many intersecting and interacting worlds, cosmologies and visions comes forward. The more important it becomes to master the tools of decolonization and setting our minds and bodies free from the constraints of modernity/coloniality.
This session of thinking together will concentrate on a number of key concepts of the decolonial option having to do with epistemic decolonization in knowledge production and intersecting in multiple ways with activism and art. This refers to border thinking, grounded in delinking from the modern/colonial matrix, the body-politics and geopolitics of knowledge, being, gender and perception, to decolonial aesthesis as opposed to explicit aesthetics, to pluritopic (multi-spatial hermeneutics) and the imperial and colonial differential the way it is being reiterated today. (Madina Tlostanova)

for seminars and open dinners, please register by July, 25 
» info@osthang-project.org
» Tel. +49 (0) 6151  787 61 80

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