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The Generic City,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Naipaul’s early intimation of what a ‘vernacular cosmopolitanism’ might be is extremely useful in discriminating between two forms of cosmopolitical thinking that are deeply ingrained in contemporary discourses of globalization.
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
J. Aaron Simmons
J. Aaron Simmons • The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction
In his late writings, Michel Foucault examined classical Roman biographies to probe how individual subjects came to be formed not only through relationships of power and knowledge (or power/knowledge) but also co-constituted themselves through intentional practices as ethical subjects.3
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
You don’t like how you look, how you sound. You think your Asian features are undefined, like God started pinching out your features and then abandoned you. You hate that there are so many Asians in the room. Who let in all the Asians? you rant in your head. Instead of solidarity, you feel that you are less than around other Asians, the boundaries
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
As my discussion of Kant and the modern universalism of Marxism and modernization theory reveals, reasoned analysis also requires a sacralization of the telos – here the utopian goal at the end of history. Faith and sacrifice remain necessary for human salvation. At the same time, the radical transcendence of the scientific human tends to blind us
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