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