[EP4] The Methodology of Emancipation: Semiotics, Language, and Revolution

In this episode, hosted on the Xicana Tiahui podcast platform, the Sandovalian Semillero Collective delves into Chapter 4 of Methodology of the Oppressed. Here, they unpack how Chela Sandoval engages the work of Martinican psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and French cultural theorist Roland Barthes, extending a conversation about semiotics (the study of signs), the conditions to link language with revolution. In particular, the collective tackles what Sandoval calls "the methodology of emancipation" and its five technologies of power: semiotics, deconstruction, meta-ideologizing, democratics, and the differential movement of consciousness. These theoretical threads of social praxis for the concrete practice enacting the social movement's differential mode come alive. The practitioner of the methodology of emancipation becomes, in the process, the one to enable this "move of energy" for the possibilities to struggle against dominant ideology.

 

Decolonizing Epistemologies: Conversation with Latinx Philosophers (UC Berkeley Latinx Research Center): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCV6Veg-eYo&ab_channel=LatinxResearchCenter