transmodernity

The Challenge of Broadening the Ontological-Political: From the Paradogma of a Good Life Towards the Bio-Paradigm of Good Lives

Carlos Andrés Duque Acosta, Unicatólica, Colombia

Marx’ Approach and Turning Dialectics Upside Down 

Katya Colmenares, Instituto Nacional de Formación Política-Morena

Marx’ Theory of Fetishism

Juan José Bautista, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Towards a Decolonial Transmodern Pluriversalism

Ramon Grosfoguel  grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California – Berkeley, USA Abstract: This article discusses the concept of the Universal in the western philosophical tradition and proposes Other, decolonial ways to think about Uni-versality as Pluri-versality, based on the thinking of Aimé Cesaire, Enrique Dussel and the Zapatistas. The first part discusses the concept of “universal” from […]

A New era in the History of Philosophy: The Global Dialogue Among Philosophical Traditions

Enrique Dussel dussamb@servidor.unam.mx Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, México Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Abstract: This paper argues the following points: 1. It is necessary to affirm that all of humanity has always sought to address certain “core universal problems” that are present in all cultures. 2. The rational responses to these “core problems” first acquire […]

“Coming off game”. Perspectives of theoretical articulation between transmodern decolonial criticism witht Foucault and Deleuze’s reflections

Hugo Busso hbusso@hotmail.es Universidad Paris 8 – U.B.A Abstract: Current biopolitical challenges prompt us to look for creative responses to the ‘worldsystem’ crisis and for alternatives to modern philosophical representation. Crisis and representation, that from the philosophy of liberation suggest leaving aside modern-colonial anchors, which are marked out as philosophical hindrances bringing bio-logical/political and social consequences, […]