You are viewing the new revised edition of Vistas of Modernity, published by Jap Sam Books. This edition includes a new foreword (Gloria Wekker) and epilogue by (Walter Mignolo).

The first (2020) and second (2021) print of Vistas of Modernity were commissioned and published by Mondriaan Fund with Jap Sam Books as publishing partner. Edited by Rosa te Velde, with a foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation of the foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.

This previous edition with ISBN

978-90-76936-53-6 is not available anymore.

For more information: Mondriaan Fonds

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We are living in a time of polarization. Cultural and educational institutions are confronted with the responsibility to provide tools and spaces for critical reflection, for engagement, and, more fundamentally, for meeting and recognizing each other in our differences. In this decolonial essay Rolando Vázquez introduces his critique which offers an option for thinking and doing beyond the dominant paradigms. It provides a critical analysis of modernity understood broadly as the western project of civilization, while it seeks to overcome the dominion of western epistemology and aesthetics and their embedded eurocentrism and anthropocentrism.