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5 unusual facts about Walter Mignolo


Walter Mignolo

He contributed to Black Mirror/Espejo Negro, a book on the works of Pedro Lasch, edited by Lasch, published by Duke University Press.

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He is the academic director of "Duke in the Andes", an interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Andean Studies in Quito, Ecuador, at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana.

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Recently, Mignolo has ventured into what he calls "decolonial aesthetics" writing on artists Pedro Lasch, Fred Wilson (artist), and Tanja Ostojić.

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Contributors: Alberto Moreiras, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Walter D. Mignolo, Slavoj Zizek, Rey Chow, Ralph A. Litzinger.

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He has also been named Permanent Researcher at Large at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.



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