An interview to Ramón Grosfoguel

Abstract

Grosfoguel talks about coloniality of power and the possibility of a radical politics beyond the politics of  identity and of articulation of a critical speech that surpass nationalism and colonialism.  It proposes to surpass the paradigms of  political economy and cultural studies.  It starts from the criterion that coloniality and modernity are two faces of the same currency and synthesizes the criticism to eurocentric hegemonic epistemology, that assumes a universalistic point of view, neutral and objective.  The solution to global social inequalities requires to imagine utopian alternatives beyond colonialism and nationalism, and of the binary ways of thought of the first world and third world eurocentric fundamentalisms.  It proposes, along with Quijano, the socialization of power, and his contribution refers to a common decoloniazing critical language.