20 de setembro - Languaging and coloniality: A decolonial argument.

Walter Mignolo

Languaging is a biologically constitutive techne of the human species (but not singular to the human species), manifested in a variety of technologies through the planet, called languages (to be more specific, idioms regulated by implicit or explicit oral or visually written signs/words). Coloniality refers to very recent history the human species which in its long trajectories managed in which a selected number of idioms (e.g., modern European imperial/colonial languages), became the foundations of coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of beings (humans and non-humans converted into "nature."). The decolonial argument i propose will unfold in two directions: analytic and prospective (diagnosis and prognosis), pointing towards current thoughts (and obviously investigations) to "decolonize languages and the mind" (twisting a little Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's expression) redirecting languaging/techne towards the reconstitution of destitute languages and knowledges.