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"Most professional humanists as a result are unable to make the connection between the prolonged and sordid cruelty of practices such as slavery, colonialist and racial oppression, and imperial subjection on the one hand, and the poetry, fiction, philosophy of the society that engages in these practices on the other."
— Jun 04, 2026 12:42AM
"Most professional humanists as a result are unable to make the connection between the prolonged and sordid cruelty of practices such as slavery, colonialist and racial oppression, and imperial subjection on the one hand, and the poetry, fiction, philosophy of the society that engages in these practices on the other."
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Ref 279: How has the liberationist anti-imperialism tried to break this shackling unity? By a new integrative or contrapuntal orientation in history that sees Western and non-Western experiences as belonging together because they are connected by imperialism; by an imaginative, even utopian vision which reconceives emancipatory theory and performance; by a particular sort of nomadic, migratory, anti-narrative energy.
— Sep 23, 2026 11:12AM
sophia
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it’s true i came to university to ignore my assigned readings and instead make my way sluggishly through one of nine million books in the catalogue 😍
— Sep 22, 2026 01:08PM
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“We are entitled to ask how this body of humanistic ideas co-existed so comfortably with imperialism, and why there was little significant opposition to empire at home. … In the great, humane ideas and values promulgated by mainstream European culture, we have precisely that ‘mould of ideas or conditioned reflexes’ of which Kiernan speaks, into which the whole business of empire later flowed.”
— Jun 22, 2026 06:39AM
“We are entitled to ask how this body of humanistic ideas co-existed so comfortably with imperialism, and why there was little significant opposition to empire at home. … In the great, humane ideas and values promulgated by mainstream European culture, we have precisely that ‘mould of ideas or conditioned reflexes’ of which Kiernan speaks, into which the whole business of empire later flowed.”