ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Hybridity, Eurocentrism
Document Summary
The commitment to theory: in the name of progress, the 19th century polarity of orient and occident, in the name of progress, unleashed the exclusionary imperialist ideologies of self and other. And action and what they mean for history: there should not be a separation of gender and class. There is no final discursive closure of theory. Avoid the binaries, they tend not to exist in reality. There is a connection between subject and object. There is no such thing as a pure origin, theory always functions as struggle. The idea is that the relationship with the dominated other is uneven; the euro-centric world thinks of the other (colonies, etc. ) as docile and there to be utilized or pitied. The culture of the other must be taken into account when judging and communicating with. One cannot use their own presumptions in order to judge and communicate with the other.
