Category Archives: Orientalism

Screening the Gaza Bloodbath

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Ash Sharma

http://latuff2.deviantart.com/ Carlos Latuff To watch the massacre of the Palestinian on our TV screens is just like watching a snuff movie. The liberal fantasy is that by gazing at the carnage we will somehow stop it. Whereas we infact become … Continue reading →

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Orientalism now

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Ash Sharma

In a piece I wrote with Sanjay Sharma ‘White Paranoia: Orientalism after Empire’ in a special issue on Orientalism for the journal Fashion Theory (2003) we tried to think about the contemporary modalities of Orientalism in relation to ‘multiculturalist neoliberalism’. … Continue reading →

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