Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edward Said, Terry Nichols, September 11 Attacks
19 Mar 2018
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Colonialism: the conquest and control of other peoples land: a phase of imperialism. Just going to a different place and taking peoples land. Imperialism: the penetration of capitalism into non-capitalist parts of the world: the destruction of non capitalist modes of production or social organization. More specifically a capitalist enterprise, bringing capitalism with you when you do colonialism. Capitalism tends to destroy other modes of production or social organization. Importation of capitalism into other parts of the world, destruction of indigenous economy and social systems in those places. After the ww1 and ww2 these big european empires broke apart with anti colonial movements. Postcolonial theory: the study of the cultures and literatures affected by imperialism: studies both the discourses produced by the colonizer and those produced by the colonized. A set of theoretical interrogations that look at the cultures and literatures effected by imperialism. Discourses produced by the colonized about their own situation. Tries to think about both those discourses.
