DEVS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Class Conflict, Sexual Fantasy
7 Apr 2016
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Used this knowledge to know more about the orient in order to later colonize them: a regime of truth: way discourse was used to create the notion of west vs. the rest is when power produces reality. Naked land we need to conquer and dominate: mis-recognizing difference: looked at the culture of people different than them through a european lens. Europeans represented as attractive and enticing about the natives could also be used to represent the exact opposite: their barbarous and depraved character. Enlightenment thinking: all civilizations could be placed as early or late on the scale of civilization through four stages hunting, pasturage, agriculture and commerce, west is the model, prototype and the measure of modernity. They imposed the rational being system (a strict definition of what it was to be rational) on others without considering the difference in others.
