Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Arthur Balfour
22 Mar 2016
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Mit 2200f mapping media and cultural theory. Arthur james balfour lectured the house of commons on the problems in egypt (believed the people belonged to a diferent category completely) The orient is the collecive noun which has been used to homogenize and refer to the regions of. Balfour sees knowledge as a tool of power over egypt, rather than military or economic conquest. Authority means to deny autonomy from the submissive. Self-government has been rarely found in the orient. Balfour doesn"t think that the egypians can speak for themselves. Posits that egypt would not exist without england. In balfour"s speech, the noun the english is oten replaced with we, exhibiing a posiion of power. Balfour doesn"t directly speak for the orientals, presumptuously because they speak another language. However, he knows how they feel since they are reliant on the english.
