Articles by Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News
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Insidious Colonialism
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
16 Apr 2018
4 Apr 2018 – An in-depth consideration of the past sixty years leads me to conclude that what almost came to an end with the independence processes of the twentieth century was a particular form of colonialism, not colonialism as a mode of domination. The form that almost came to an end was what can be termed historical colonialism, which was characterized by foreign territorial occupation. But the mode of colonial domination persisted in other forms.
→ read full articleThe New Thesis Eleven
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
22 Jan 2018
19 Jan 2018 – In 1845, shortly after he published the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx wrote his Theses on Feuerbach. The famous thesis eleven, the best known of them all, reads: “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” The word “philosophers” is used here in a broad sense, as referring to the producers of erudite knowledge, which nowadays might include the whole of humanistic and scientific knowledge deemed basic, as opposed to applied knowledge.
→ read full articleThe Left and Catalonia
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – The Catalonia referendum this Sunday [1 Oct] will become part of the history of Europe, possibly for the worst of reasons.
→ read full articleTowards a Sociology of Absences
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
12 Jun 2017
Contrary to appearances, the abyssal line has not been erased with the end of territorial colonialism. It is still there today, just like colonialism is, albeit in new forms. It is this abyssal line that justifies racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, the destruction of countries like Iraq, Libya, or Syria, the Palestinian “final solution” perpetrated by victims turned into aggressors, the massive incarceration of young Black people in the United States, the inhuman treatment of refugees.
→ read full articleHorizons Needed
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
15 May 2017
The totalitarianism of our times announces itself as the end of totalitarianism and, because of this, it is more insidious than former totalitarianisms. We are too many and too humane to follow a single path; on the other hand, however, if paths are many and they go in all directions they can easily become a labyrinth or a skein of yarn, a dynamic field of paralysis, anyway. This is the condition of our times. To exit from it we need to combine the plurality of possible paths with the coherence of a horizon that organizes circumstances and gives them meaning.
→ read full articleMaking the Future Possible Again
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – When we look at the past through the eyes of the present, we find huge cemeteries of abandoned futures, struggles that inaugurated new possibilities but were neutralized, silenced, or distorted, futures murdered at birth, or even still-born futures, contingencies that determined the winning choice later ascribed to the course of history.
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