Towards the End of the University as we Knew It (II). |

Towards the End of the University as we Knew It (II). |

 Argentinian semiotician (École des Hautes Études) and professor at Duke University, Walter D. Mignolo

[...]Readings was already seeing the university’ corporate turn in the US. Shortly after, European, Asian, Latin American, African universities began to follow suit. The corporate turn doesn’t refer to universities being funded by corporations, but to the corporate values that is increasingly dominating its vision and mission. But, again, to hear about the effect that corporatization of learning has in graduate students, shall give all of us pause.

On Pluriversality

Pluriversality is not cultural relativism, but entanglement of several cosmologies connected today in a power differential. That power differential is the logic of coloniality covered up by the rhetorical narrative of modernity. Modernity is a fiction that carries in it the seed of Western pretense to universality.
 ~Walter Mignolo