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‘Nuff Edward Said: The Compartmentalization Of The Knowledge
FROM a new biography of Edward Said:
This was, in other words, the moment in Western history that, simultaneous with the expanding geographical horizon of the Eurocentric gaze, witnessed the compartmentalization of the knowledge of being into disciplines and the consequent reduction of its be-ing to ‘fields,’ ‘domains,’ or ‘maps’ and further classifications and tabulations of its living details—that is, the development of knowledge/power relations that, according to Said, came to characterize the next (third) phase of the history of Orientalist discourse.
Sounds thrilling…
Posted: 1st, December 2008 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Comments
December 1st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Heidegger has a lot to answer for…
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
You must be foreign. We don’t spell it with a ‘Z’ in the UK. It is ‘Compartmentalisation’. Get it right you slackers - or join the D**ly M**l.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Reading that gave me tumours for eyes. On the up side, opening the door next Halloween is going to be hilarious. On the down side, I’ll probably be dead before then.