Oddity Nr. 3 - Lecture Prof. Walter Mignolo

Re-figurations of Universalism and Reconstitutions of the
Pluriversal

Before 1500, the planetary order was polycentric, pluriversal and
non-capitalist. There was no one single civilisation that
impinged and intruded over the rest. Consequently, there could
not be any claim to the universality of each local universal.
After 1500, the planetary order became capitalist and
monocentric. That is, one single universal, Western Christianity,
managed to inaugurate and institute its local universal and
destituting local universals of New World civilisations.
“Universalism” became a totalitarian totality of knowledge.