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This title is not a contradictory proposition. It is a call to unthink much of what we have become accustomed to thinking…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is the emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. His most recent book is Decolonizing the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice.
In this text, the hyper-contemporary age is situated between the end of World War II and the present day. As in previous…
Since at least classical antiquity, the differences between dictatorship and democracy have been clear, unequivocal, and as evident as the difference between…
In cordial dialog with Jeffrey D. Sachs I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do,…
The easy answer to this question would be to say that we are in a time of transition. After all, all eras…
All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or extremism establishes a…
Not everything that apparently has no beginning or end is infinite. For example, a circle, which is a confined space-time. It is…
Trump is a legitimate son, not a bastard, of modern Europe. Just as Hitler was in his time. The mother who gave…
Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in…
Scales are conventions about proportionalities and the relationships between them. The idea of human scale is ancient and present in all cultures.…