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“Plattmachen und Parkplätze bauen” -> unten

Mmmm, Rassismus (aus Sekundärliteratur)

“If this stimulates a new kind of dealing with the Orient, indeed it it eliminates the "Orient" and "Occident" altogether, then we shall have advanced a little in the process of what Raymond Williams has called the "unlearning" of "the inherent dominative mode.”

reinforced stereotypes, media

-> callback Walter Benjamin?

Overview

“there has never been […] an ‘idea’ of the Orient.”

“as early as Aeschylus's play The Persians the Orient is transformed from a very far distant and often threatening Otherness into figures that are relatively familiar”

strategic location, strategic formation

German oriental scholarship