The seminar studies the relations of cultural and epistemological domination which have underpinned the European colonial system, and their transformations in the North-South politics of knowledge characteristic of the successive stages of postcolonial globalization, up to the most contemporary situations of academia and intellectual work across the world. To ensure the study of the detailed geo-political dynamics running through the history of discourses, the chosen perspective is one of a poetics of knowledges, seeking to engage to their fullest potential the critical operators generated by the complex specificity of situations of enunciation, the diversity of languages, and translation.