Yet, despite the widening of the general frame, Orientalism still reigns; though it’s not as brazen, its subtle forms are everywhere. Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later.Philip Metres reflects upon Edward Said, Othering, and the representation of Arabs in US culture.
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If I tell you “the sky is green,” it’s not so much my goal that you believe me instantly. My goal is rather to reiterate the claim that the sky is green until your resources to endure this dissonance are depleted and you give in and say, “that’s your opinion. I think the sky is …
More than 2,000 people are missing. Towns are practically wiped off the map. People’s homes have been torched. That isn’t a scene from a horror movie, it’s the aftermath of a brutal terrorist attack in Nigeria. And few people are talking about it. (via micdotcom) […] I haven’t really said anything about the mass killings …
Your Papers and Footnotes, Please
Tim Parks questions the necessity of footnotes and strict references in academic publications: There is, in short, an absolutely false, energy-consuming, nit-picking attachment to an outdated procedure that now has much more to do with the sad psychology of academe than with the need to guarantee that the research is serious. By all means, on …
ethiopienne: #goals
CLARITY AND CHAOS 