ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the least developed and dealt with matters in the theory of “extractivism,” namely, “epistemological extractivism” and “ontological extractivism.” As Ramón Grosfoguel states, the appropriation of knowledge and eradication of the historical memory of the origins of philosophy and modern science constituted the modern/colonial epistemic extractivist project from its earliest days at the end of the fifteenth century to the present day. Challenging this appropriation, the author, through three decolonial dialogues with Ecuadorian Alberto Acosta, Canadian indigenous Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Bolivian Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, develops a theory on the most unknown dimensions of “extractionism” that “neocolonial imperial West” exerts on the rest of the world.
