Synopsis
Mignolo argues that Western modernity and colonial domination are two sides of one coin, and that decolonial thinking must delink from its categories.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workThere is no modernity without coloniality; the prosperity and progress of the West were built on the dispossession and silencing of colonized peoples.
It refuses to treat colonial violence as an excess of modernity, insisting it is modernity's hidden foundation.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment?.
Reading note
Read it as theory aimed at shifting the geography of knowledge, not as a narrative history.
Best paired with
Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment?