Walter Mignolo Quotes on Knowledge
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Walter Mignolo on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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:
“Knowledge has a geography; it does not float free of where it was made.”
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Attributed to Walter Mignolo:
“To delink is to step out of the frame in which one has been made legible.”