I know that some who might read this blog are not within the social sciences, but I wanted to share some interesting/insightful/helpful in any number of ways/thought provoking regardless of your academic-political stance from my comp exam reading. I guess that I can update this post periodically-- not sure how to make a widget and all of that,but I just wanted to start with a couple:
"Postmodernism has us accepting the reifications and partitionings, actually
celebrating the activity of masking and cover-up, all the fetishisms
of locality, place, or social grouping, while denying the kind of metatheory
which can grasp the political-economic processes (money flows,
international divisions of labour, financial markets, and the like) that are
becoming ever more universalizing in their depth, intensity, reach, and
power over daily life" (David Harvey, 1990, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 117)
"Why is this particular age characterized by disjuncture? And where
and how does the laborer become a reimagined subject in this moment
of disjuncture? How might we begin to trace the trajectory of the victims
of capital in their respective epochs? For instance, how may we
theorize the disjuncture experienced by the Chinese cockle pickers
who drowned in Morecombe Bay in the spring of 2004 alongside the
traumatic disjuncture endured by the eighteenth-centuryWest African
slaves who were thrown overboard by their captors? What of the millions
who died in the Bengal famine of 1943 and the many thousands
who die today in preventable famines in sub-Saharan Africa? Where
are the links? Where are the discontinuities? Capitalist structures,
whether they take shape through uneven development or endless
war, have consistently resulted in severe moments of disjuncture for
millions across the globe. After all, capital’s historic task has been to
reinforce divisive structures that operate across boundaries. The enshrinement
of disjuncture as a symptom of the new in itself does not
address the complexity of these historical associations" (Kanishka Chowdury, 2006, "Interrogating 'Newness': Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Endless War" in Cultural Critique, pgs. 136-137).
"Indeed, to a large extent the question of whether time as brought us closer to human integration depends on how one interprets the history of conquest, slavery, and colonialism. I favor an interpretation that stresses the dialectics of these episodes: empire and emancipation have been an intricate historical interplay (chapter 4). Culture contact, in the end is a matter of collusion and not simply collision (Dathorne 1996)." (Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2004, Globalization and Culture: Global Melange, pg. 26).
"Postmodernism has us accepting the reifications and partitionings, actually
celebrating the activity of masking and cover-up, all the fetishisms
of locality, place, or social grouping, while denying the kind of metatheory
which can grasp the political-economic processes (money flows,
international divisions of labour, financial markets, and the like) that are
becoming ever more universalizing in their depth, intensity, reach, and
power over daily life" (David Harvey, 1990, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 117)
"Why is this particular age characterized by disjuncture? And where
and how does the laborer become a reimagined subject in this moment
of disjuncture? How might we begin to trace the trajectory of the victims
of capital in their respective epochs? For instance, how may we
theorize the disjuncture experienced by the Chinese cockle pickers
who drowned in Morecombe Bay in the spring of 2004 alongside the
traumatic disjuncture endured by the eighteenth-centuryWest African
slaves who were thrown overboard by their captors? What of the millions
who died in the Bengal famine of 1943 and the many thousands
who die today in preventable famines in sub-Saharan Africa? Where
are the links? Where are the discontinuities? Capitalist structures,
whether they take shape through uneven development or endless
war, have consistently resulted in severe moments of disjuncture for
millions across the globe. After all, capital’s historic task has been to
reinforce divisive structures that operate across boundaries. The enshrinement
of disjuncture as a symptom of the new in itself does not
address the complexity of these historical associations" (Kanishka Chowdury, 2006, "Interrogating 'Newness': Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Endless War" in Cultural Critique, pgs. 136-137).
"Indeed, to a large extent the question of whether time as brought us closer to human integration depends on how one interprets the history of conquest, slavery, and colonialism. I favor an interpretation that stresses the dialectics of these episodes: empire and emancipation have been an intricate historical interplay (chapter 4). Culture contact, in the end is a matter of collusion and not simply collision (Dathorne 1996)." (Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2004, Globalization and Culture: Global Melange, pg. 26).
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