The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995)
Walter D. Mignolo (born May 1, 1941) is an Argentine semiotician (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and professor at Duke University, who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and worked on different aspects of the modern and colonial world, exploring concepts such as decoloniality, global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and pluriversality. He is one of the founders of the modernity/coloniality critical school of thought.[1]
Since January 1993, Walter D. Mignolo has been the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, USA, and has joint appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies.
1992: The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Colonization and the Discontinuity of the Classical Tradition, Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. 45, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 808–828. The University of Chicago Press.
1994: Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, co-edited with Elizabeth H. Boone.
1994-95: The Americas: Loci of Enunciations and Imaginary Constructions.
1999: Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking
2001: Capitalismo y Geopolitica del Conocimiento: El Eurocentrismo y La Filosofia de La Liberacion En El Debate Intelectual Contemporaneo, Coleccion Plural by Ulises Barrera and Walter Mignolo.
2002: Vicissitudes of Theory. Contributors: Alberto Moreiras, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Walter D. Mignolo, Slavoj Zizek, Rey Chow, Ralph A. Litzinger.
2003: 2nd edition: The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization. In Spanish: El lado más oscuro del renacimiento: alfabetización, territorialidad y colonización. http://www.unicauca.edu.co/editorial/, Popayán, Cauca
2003: Historias Locales / Disenos Globales: Colonialidad, Conocimientos Subalternos Y Pensamiento Fronterizo (Cuestiones De Antagonismo) 456 p., Akal Ediciones Sa.
2006: Interculturalidad, descolonizacion del estado y del conocimiento/ Interculturality, Descolonization of The State and Knowledge with Catherine Walsh and Alvaro Garcia Linera. 123p.
2007: Cultural Studies on "Globalization and the Decolonial Option." with Arturo Escobar 21/2-3, March.
2007: Geopolíticas de la Animación, Marco, Centro Andalúz de Arte Contemporáneo.
2008: Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires. Margaret R. Greer, Maureen Quilligan and Walter Mignolo, Eds.
2009: Dispensable and Bare Lives: Coloniality and the Hidden Political/Economic Agenda of Modernity, In Historicizing Anti-Semitism, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism Maison des Science de l'Home (MSH) Paris, June 29–30, 2007. Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 7: Iss. 2, Article 7.[2]
2011: The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Latin America Otherwise). Duke University Press Books, 458 p.
2018: On Decoloniality: Concept, Analytics, Praxis co-authored with Catherine Walsh. Duke University Press
2021: The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (On Decoloniality). Duke University Press
http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/59/ Essay: RE:EMERGING, DECENTRING AND DELINKING Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing on IBRAAZ 2013