Santiago Castro-Gómez

Castro-Gómez is a public intellectual in Colombia whose work has been the subject of conferences and books,[5] debates over Colombian identity,[6] research on Latin American philosophy,[7][8] as well as artistic installations.

[11] Alongside Aníbal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, Enrique Dussel, Ramón Grosfoguel, Catherine Walsh, Arturo Escobar, Edgardo Lander and Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Castro-Gómez was part of the "Modernity/Coloniality" group, a circle of Latin American critical theorists formed at the beginning of the 21st century.

[14][15] In addition to colleagues like Aníbal Quijano and Walter Mignolo, his major influences include the Frankfurt School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.

[18] In Zero-Point Hubris, Castro-Gómez characterizes Rene Descartes' 1637 famous statement of "I think, therefore I am" as "the moment white Europeans installed themselves above God as the sole arbiters of knowledge and truth.

With this turning point, they began to think of themselves as observers whose scientific methods, morals and ethics overrode those of other cultures.