Thinking coloniality of power | Liliana Conlisk Gallegos | TEDxCSUSB 

In this presentation I will be talking about the ways in which the logic of coloniality continues to affect the way we see the world and think about identity and difference. The logic of coloniality, coined by Peruvian theorist Anibal Quijano, refers to a cosmovision that was imposed by colonialism and which continues existing in our world today through perpetual updates across time and space which have been enabled by the matrix of power composed of the institutions that uphold the logic of coloniality which includes but is not limited to concepts such as the myth of modernity, white supremacy, binary thinking, oversimplification, and hierarchical thinking. Today we talk so much about the future and new realities and worlds, yet we still need to come to terms with our past and current history. How is our obsession with the future and “advancing” into modernity keeping us from liberation? "Uncivil disruptor who doesn't know her place". As an Optimus Prime Trauma Transformer con lengua de machete, I cannot help but experiment with EVERYTHING including art, virtual reality, and all forms of media. With the goal of advancing the certain decolonial turn, my live, interactive media art production and rasquache performances generate culturally specific, collective, technocultural creative spaces of production that reconnect Chicana/o/x Mestiza Indigenous wisdom and conocimiento to their ongoing technological and scientific contributions, still currently "overlooked" through the logic of the decaying Eurocentric project of Modernity. As a transfronteriza (perpetual border crosser), the current limited perceptions of what research, media, and technology can be and do are like a yonke (junkyard), from which pieces are upcycled and repurposed to amplify individual and collective expression, community healing, and social justice. I am a performer of research, a translator, a filter that collects, isolates, and exposes supremacist formats while finding a way to design hubs to compile digital and analogue collections of designs, expressions, and realities a nuestro modo. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx