Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Postcolonialism, Jacques Lacan, Deconstruction
10 Dec 2016
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Colonialism: the contest and control of other people"s lands, generally by a european power, considered to be a phase of imperialism. Imperialism: more specifically the penetration of capitalism into non-capitalists parts f the world, the destruction of non-capitalist modes of production or social organization. Together they encompass the sense of seizing others territory and displacing their traditional modes to be more aligned with capitalism. Process of colonialization and imperialism has enormously disrupted socially, economically, and politically to the people who inhabit these spaces before europeans arrive in them. Post-colonial theory is an attempt to think about those effects. It is the study of the cultures and literatures affected by imperialism. It studies both the discourses produced by the colonizer and those produced by the colonized. Opened up a huge new set of inquiries into the culture of places that had been colonized by europe but also a new way of looking at european cultures as well.
