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scholarly articles on Orientalism

Reading Orientalism Again: Ten Studies of Representation and Power

Edward W. Said’s Orientalism made representation inseparable from imperial power: the “Orient” was not merely described but produced as an…

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scholarly articles on Discipline and Punish

Scholarly Articles on Discipline and Punish: Beyond the Panopticon

Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish transformed the history of punishment by locating the modern prison within a wider machinery of…

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Marx’s commodity fetishism

Marx’s Commodity Fetishism and the Hidden Theology of Capitalist Social Relations

Marx’s commodity fetishism remains disturbing because it names a social mystery that modern societies often prefer to treat as ordinary…

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