RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: For Marx
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Not in sense that orient exists, but that discourse produces it, constructs reality. Constructs: there is a gap between which does not need construction and that which constructs; gap between idea and material. Construct by claiming to know it, able to speak for it. Thus control, exert power over it, dominate. Colonialism also reinforce orientalism (two way street) Orientalism also have material consequences > acts of discipline (40) class, court, prison (in different disciplines) Said: orientalism produces difference between primitive and developed that does not exist. S wants to see us develop ways of getting along without assuming a hierarchy that results in racism, sexism, muslim discrimination etc. To achieve this, need to reckon with differences: acknowledge differences as constitutive of human life. Expansion into asia and africa, domination spread across most of world. Colonization allow integration of world, creation of world market. We were not always organized around the modern state.
