Abstract
Dardot and Laval’s work on the common has not yet been subjected to criticism of coloniality. Faced with this gap, this article explores the “decolonial” potentialities of this work - locating them in its constructivist conception of the common - as well as its “colonial” traps - related to the Eurocentric limits of its “archeology” of the common, the underestimation of the heterogeneity of power relations and the difficulty of facing the limits of the “political language” authorized by modern-Western institutions. It concludes with an invitation to expand the political imaginary of the common from the repertoire of non-Western/ non-imperial experiences, under the imperative of the norm of epistemic or cosmopolitical inappropriability.
Keywords:
Pierre Dardot; Christian Laval; Common; Coloniality