This was from the Guadalajara LASA, in 1997.
I am wondering now whether cultural exceptionalism is a “criollo symptom” — of the attempt to grapple with the fact of being in what Mignolo (and others) call “coloniality” when their imperative is to join the modernity (again Mignolo) from which they are barred by definition.
This is a night thought, after teaching and working on teaching for a total of 11 hours today, so I am not entirely coherent. But it seems the current paper has something to do with that old presentation.
#OccupyHE.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I should perhaps design another paper, on Sarmiento and his ambiguities and ambivalences, related to cultural exceptionalism. He is in the jaws of several conflicting imperatives, and I think cultural exceptionalism may be the way people express this conflict they do not see because they are so invested in these imperatives. ?
Observe this: http://www.ensayistas.org/critica/teoria/castro/mignolo.htm
Mignolo on this LASA and decolonialidad.