The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)

the strategic splitting of the colonial discourse – less than one and double – is contained by addressing the other as despot.

limitations of liberty and the problems of establishing a mode of governmental discourse that requires a colonial substitute for democratic ‘public discussion’. Such a process of substitution is precisely Mill’s system of recordation: events experienced and inscribed in India are to be read otherwise, transformed into the acts of governments and th

The ‘beyond’ is neither a new horizon, nor a leaving behind of the past…. Beginnings and endings may be the sustaining myths of the middle years; but in the fin de siècle, we find ourselves in the moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of difference and identity, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and e

remarkable critical and creative impulse.

‘national’ cultures are being produced from the perspective of disenfranchised minorities.

less to do with the affirmation or authentication of origins and ‘identities,’ and more to do with political practices and ethical choices.

global cosmopolitanism, widely

I do want to make graphic what it means to survive, to produce, to labor and to create, within a world-system whose major economic impulses and cultural investments are pointed in a direction away from you, your country or your people.

in asserting the natural rights of empire, Mill’s proposal implicitly erases all that is taken as ‘second nature’ within Western civility.