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Stop Bombing Them | The Row Boat by Nathan Schneider — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:38:35 +0000

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By: Eoin O'Mahony

Eoin O'Mahony — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:42:57 +0000

Thanks Nathan, that’s a good way to put it.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:08:43 +0000

Thanks for your thoughtful comment! I wouldn’t be as pessimistic as you are. While there aren’t nearly as many non-white public intellectuals as there might be, I think there are more than one. When I speak of Asad as Said’s successor, I’m not crediting either of them with being the sole non-white intellectual. Rather, perhaps, they’ve taken their turns as dean of a certain academic (and occasionally public) discussion about colonialism, literary theory, and political imagination. What Said did for “orientalism,” Asad has done for the “secular”: taken a word whose meaning we thought we knew and shown it to empire through the mirror of its colonies.

By: Eoin O'Mahony

Eoin O'Mahony — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:21:05 +0000

This is a very good interview. I’m glad I managed to see it on Immanent Frame this morning. Your last line above in particular reminded me that Asad has become what Said used to be: a prominent public academic with the weight of an argument that can be related to many situations. As contemptible as the idea might be: do you think that Anglo culture has room for only one non-white publicly engaged intellectual at any one time?

When Asad speaks about “the morphology of our provocative choices” it has echoes for analyses of the riots currently taking place in England as well. Many liberals are hiding under the ‘but it’s the disadvantage’ line while at the same time advocating a brutality toward the looters that would be more characteristic of the right, particularly in relation to the protection of private property.