#Orientalist

jannah

inafewbluemoons

are you normal or do you get sudden urges to just thoroughly search up all the answers to very specific yet very random question that pops in mind? today’s random

Siddhant Adlakha

SiddhantAdlakha

Kind of wild that one of the first Asian people to have any major creative say in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise was... M. Night Shyamalan(prior to him I

me fui de vacaciones⁷ 🇩🇴🇨🇳

elliotsang

are BTS the only kpop group to write their own songs? no. the only to often have important messages? no. the only with great vocals, genrebending songs, self production, alternate

Arturo

xochiteotl

Dom @/doggedseraphim is a predator who uses his anti-zionist & anti-orientalist politics to get close to & exploit vulnerable men. He has little sense of boundaries, often pushing fetishistic, incestual,

Mariusz Kaczka

MariuszKaczka

did you know that there are Ottoman documents in provincial German archives? The number of Ottoman documents stored in the State Archive in Dresden, for instance, grew considerably from 1697

Alatar the Blue

Auslandsgruppe1

Daily reminder that the concept that the decadent Western Civilization is Apollonian and that Eastern civilization is Dionysian and somehow the key to "rejuvenating" the West is, in fact, a

āṅgīrasaśreṣṭha

GhorAngirasa

A simple, sharp & effective prose on the Xtian conceptual framework behind anti-brahmanism & some of its most famous proponents. Journal Article: “Mantras of Anti-Brahmanism: Colonial Experience of Indian Intellectuals”,

Sara Tafakori

TafakoriSara

I am extremly wary of such analysis, which in challenging stereotypical essentialising representations of the East, constructs an alternative essentialism 1https://twitter.com/jadaliyya/status/1330956797746798593 2- where the nation is imag

Persian Poetics

PersianPoetics

Thread: The Orientalizing of Moulana RumiMany of you may be familiar with the 'Rumi quotes' that circulate the internet. What if I told you the vast majority of them are

Ash & S

ponderouswhims

Ok so we finally tracked down what we think is the source of today's #syscourse about tulpa/parogenic systems. Turns out we're exactly the kind of system they were criticizing, so

Ibn Maghreb

IbnMaghrebi

May start a regular thread where I share an interesting paper in full. Recently discovered the scholarship of Dr. Lipton after the recent publication of his Rethinking Ibn Arabi that

Sam Hirst

Samuel_J_Hirst

Question (in thread form) about race and Orientalism in the USSR: At the recent #aseees2019 conference, I was struck by the audience's laughter. For example, an art historian pointed out

Vincent Wong

InitialVW

What bothers me a lot about pro-CCP Western tankies (as opposed to pro-CCP 'new left' folks in China) is that their Utopian idea of socialist China is only made possible

🌼 dandelion boy 🌼

whoteverforever

thread incoming: i'm disturbed, but not surprised, by how the imperial core responds to systematic challenges to its typical function, namely covid-19. there has been a rise not only in

Merch Gwarthus

punkistani93

Wales isn’t currently a colony. Calling Wales a colony right now when it is a beneficiary of colonisation of the 3rd world panders to historical revisionism of Welsh history for

Sadie Farrell 🏴 ↙️↙️↙️

Marusya_1312

Orientalism is about subjective othering of what's colloquially called "the East." Both negative conceptions with authoritarianism, poverty & constant war as well as festishism with utopia, egalitarianism, paradise. The 2n