Thursday, November 24, 2011

Interview: Hamid Dabashi, "Brown Skin, White Masks"

New Texts Out Now: Hamid Dabashi, "Brown Skin, White Masks"

Good quote:

"I wrote this book to understand a particularly pathetic aspect of the manufacturing of consent at the heart of the Bush imperial project through the active participation of comprador intellectuals (Arab, Iranian, Pakistani, Indian, etc.), who are in fact drawn from the ranks of the exilic intellectuals, a condition which from Theodore Adorno to Edward Said has been celebrated as the condition of dissent."