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“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.”
— Mar 02, 2026 02:58PM
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Carina
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reinforced stereotypes, media
-> callback Walter Benjamin?
— Mar 02, 2026 02:54PM
-> callback Walter Benjamin?
Carina
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“there has never been […] an ‘idea’ of the Orient.”
— Mar 02, 2026 02:44PM
Carina
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“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”
— Mar 02, 2026 02:38PM
Carina
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“[…] Orientalism is not a mere political subject matter or field […] [but] a distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic, scholarly, economic, sociological, historical, and philological texts; it is an elaboration not only of a basic geographical distinction (the world is made up of two unequal halves, Orient and Occident) but also of a whole series of ‘interests’ […]”
— Mar 02, 2026 02:18PM
