Walter Mignolo Quotes
Walter Mignolo is an Argentine-American semiotician and decolonial theorist, professor at Duke University, and one of the founding figures of the Latin American decolonial school. The Darker Side of the Renaissance and The Idea of Latin America reread the European invention of modernity as inseparable from the colonization of the Americas, in which the subjugation of indigenous peoples and African slavery were not the dark side of progress but its constitutive ground. The quotes below are attributed to Walter Mignolo, organized by topic.
Walter Mignolo on Freedom
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“To delink is to step out of the frame in which one has been made legible.”
Walter Mignolo on Knowledge
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“Knowledge has a geography; it does not float free of where it was made.”
Walter Mignolo on Politics
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“Modernity and coloniality are two sides of the same coin.”
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“Border thinking is thinking from the wound of difference.”
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“The pluriverse is a world in which many worlds fit.”