Abstract This article repositions Moroccan Cultural Studies ( MCS ) within a trialectic of order, border and thinking. Drawing on Fanon’s ‘color problem’ (2008), Mignolo’s geopolitics of knowledge (2005), and Castro-Gómez’s ‘zero-point hubris’ (2021), it maps the epistemic hierarchies that still rank Moroccan scholarship beneath Euro-Atlantic canons. Borders materialize not only as visa regimes but also as citation circuits that determine who may speak on behalf of whom. Meanwhile, the digital acceleration of everyday life erodes the reflective ‘thinking time’ required for critique. To resist, we propose counter-politics of slowness, incompleteness and weak thought, inflected by Khatibi’s visceral tactics of vomit. The analysis cautions against the essentialist lure of jingoist thought in MCS circles, while arguing for a situated and relational universality. The article weaves voice, value and vomit into a conjunctural method, sketching a decolonial roadmap for an open-ended MCS capable of confronting planetary entanglement and reclaiming the right to think otherwise.
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