Ep.49: Coloniality and the Matrix Trilogy

This episode seeks to share an understanding of coloniality as a global system by engaging with the Matrix film series franchise, focusing on the initial trilogy. The Matrix trilogy is applied as a metaphor to build critical consciousness of coloniality, settler-colonialism, and Indigeneity, while also exploring other social constructions. This compliments an early episode on modernity and Indigeneity and confronts the world as we know it.

References:

Liliana Conlisk Gallegos – Thinking Coloniality of Power Tedx

Jack Forbes – Columbus and Other Cannibals

Sylvia Wynter – Unsettling the Coloniality of Being

Nelson Maldonado-Torres – On the Coloniality of Being; Against War

Anibal Quijano – Coloniality of Power

Maria Lugones – Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System

Ty Tengan – (En)gendering Colonialism

The Red Nation

Afropessimism – Frank Wilderson III

John Trudell - Trudell

David Graeber and David Wengrow – The Dawn of Everything