De-Cathecting from the Global Fiduciary by Prof.

How does one bring awareness of mechanisms of colonial power, domination and control that coerced colonized elites to consent to the global sovereignty of modern knowledge, and continue to interdict nonwestern thought in the modern knowledge system? To what extent is it a global condition that nonwestern thought cannot avoid being mediated or translated through the anglophone/western idiom? In this talk I reflect on my earlier attempts (Interdictions 2007; RSW 2009) to grapple with these questions by deploying my subjectivity as an heuristic linking the operation of a colonial technology in the past and present. If this ‘global fiduciary’ continues to engender an automatic cathexis from indigenous thought-systems/languages to the supposedly universal and primarily anglophone idiom of Western thought, I ask whether something like a de-cathexis from the ‘global fiduciary’ is possible or even desirable. How might a generalized de-cathexis enable us to engage and intervene in today’s global political condition of competing nationalism, right-wing populisms, nativisms, and fascisms?