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Still Colonialists?

I'm a bit slow, but a while back Detrimental Postulation had this to say:

"In other words, even after such significant events, the focus of our attention remains on the West: what it has done, what it can do about it. Whether you celebrate or blame, it’s still not a discussion about the world and/or its cultural, political and psychological configurations; it’s a discussion about the West. (I also love Butler’s implication that the actual aim of the “War on Terror” is, basically, to be able to forget the rest of the world again, like the Good Old Days.)

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"9/11, the London bombings: such events do and should immediately interpellate us: they call us with unavoidable fact that we exist in the world in all kinds of deeply entangled ways. Like good scholarship, we know that we cannot ever completely disentangle such relationships, but we also know that it is worth having a crack if only for what doing so throws up. That our arguments, still, can cross some oceans but not others, that we still don’t give significant political or evidential attention to the unWest even when we act like we’re talking about it, are crucial flaws on all sides of contemporary political discourse."

But go and read this first.

More gold from the same source.

posted by mh @ 12:18 PM