This thesis investigates current discourses of transmodernity in relation to the relatively contemporaneous discourse and praxis of "reengineering." Focusing, in particular, on Enrique Dussel's definition of transmodernity as a response to modern world-system expansion, and on Richard Marsden's Foucauldian-Marxian analysis of corporate reengineering, it attempts a cautious synthesis of these disparate frameworks of analysis in an effort to open up question about the possibility of intercultural dialogue, and to consider the inter-continental projection of Eurocentric knowledges as and early manner of time-space compression, predating normally cited examples. Drawing comparisons between the "I want" attitude constitutive of postmodern hedonism and "I-conquer" mentality of the colonizer-conquistador, it argues that structural imperatives of capital accumulation underpin both these manifestations. Dussel posits that a "sacrificial paradigm" has accompanied coloniality, whereby "progress" justifies human suffering. The thesis concludes that a similar ideology underlies the post-modern "new-economy."