Capitalismo e orientalismo
Un nuovo libro analizza il lavoro di #Edward_Said alla luce del marxismo, mostrando che l’imperialismo non è soltanto un fenomeno culturale
#After_Said. Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century
By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said’s work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said’s work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said’s intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, #culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial literary theory and the works of Said.
En anglais:
Capitalism and Orientalism
Rena Jackson, Jacobin, mars 2019
▻https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/after-edward-said-review-postcolonial-theory-imperialism
Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism | Brain Pickings
▻http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/06/temujin-doran-obey-film
Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism
by Maria Popova
“A populace that can no longer find the words to articulate what is happening to it is cut off from rational discourse.”
British filmmaker and illustrator Temujin Doran has previously delighted and stimulated us with his visual love letters to language and illustration, his opinionated meditations on democracy and the art of protest, and his poetic documentaries about a small Arctic town and a dying occupation. His latest film, made entirely out of footage found on the web, is based on the book The Death of the Liberal Class (public library; UK) by cultural critic and foreign correspondent Chris Hedges and explores how the rise of the Corporate State precipitated everything from income inequality to environmental collapse to the mainstream media’s metamorphosis from a tool of public service into a weapon of private interest.