Industrial modernity and coloniality present themselves as linear processes. Over the next four sessions, we’ll look at how the decolonial disrupts that linearity and provides alternative ways of seeing. Viveiros de Castro’s work on Amerindian perspectives–used in a very different sense than in Western art–requires us to think differently about the Americas and the Atlantic world.
Audra Simpson in her book Mohawk Interruptus challenges conventional forms of identity politics by showing that Native peoples are not seeking “recognition” from settler colonialism but are instead refusing it.
Xochitl Leyva Solano introduces the Zapatista cosmology from the Indigenous perspective, using their famous slogan “Walking While Asking Questions,” and Scott Lauria Morgensen asks what the consequences of these Indigenous methodologies should be within the colonial university structure–as will we.