8/5/26, 21:32 AVATARS OF THE CHANGE OF ERA: ONTOLOGICAL REASONING AND RELATIONAL (DECOLONIAL) REASONING • Buttondown Walter Mignolo 2026, LodeWalter

https://www.academia.edu/171315054/8_5_26_21_32_AVATARS_OF_THE_CHANGE_OF_ERA_ONTOLOGICAL_REASONING_AND_RELATIONAL_DECOLONIAL_REASONING_Buttondown?email_work_card=title A change of era is recognized not only by the appearance of new events, but by the moment inherited categories no longer allow us to understand what is happening. What changes, then, is not only the world before us, but the form of reasoning through which that world becomes intelligible. This essay argues that the present change of era is marked by the waning authority of ontological reasoning, centered on separate entities, and the emergence of relational, decolonial reasoning, attentive to the webs that produce meaning, power, and political reality