The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)

naturalization of the problems of citizenship.

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

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

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

It is in this sense that the boundary becomes the place from which something begins its presencing in a movement not dissimilar to the ambulant, ambivalent articulation of the beyond that I have drawn out:

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

‘Be the father and the oppressor … just and unjust’ is a mode of contradictory utterance that ambivalently reinscribes, across differential power relations, both colonizer and colonized.

triumph of the colonialist moment in early English Evangelism and modern English literature. The discovery of the book installs the sign of appropriate representation: the word of God, truth, art creates the conditions for a beginning, a practice of history and narrative. But the institution of the Word in the wilds is also an Entstellung, a proces

to live somehow beyond the border of our times – throws into relief the temporal, social differences that interrupt our collusive sense of cultural contemporaneity.