In this talk, Dr. Mendieta discusses why we need to think of philosophy as a temporalizing/detemporalizing-spatializing/de-spacializing device—what he calls a "chronotopological dispositif." Second, Dr. Mendieta presents arguments for why, before we begin the practice of decolonizing philosophy, we need to think of philosophy as a site of colonization, the moraine of a sedimented history of colonial practices and imaginaries. This calls for new ways of doing both the history of philosophy and expanding the repertoire of what are considered "philosophical questions." Third, Dr. Mendieta takes a step back and offers two genealogies of philosophy that illustrate the contaminated origins of philosophy. Fourth, and finally, he discusses briefly what he would take to be the praxis of decolonial thinking and philosophizing from a Latinx perspective.
This event is free and open to the public.
