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Edward Said’s Last Tin of Tobacco.

04-Aug-09

http://kyleschen.com/tag/antifragile/ Some oddities from the Arab-American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.  They had a case of relics from the life of Edward Said, the famous scholar whose fame has perhaps not done much good (for my essay on Orientalism see here). Why in the world we should be interested in his last tin of tobacco I […]

Edward Said’s Orientalism.

24-Mar-09

Rimini There are many things which I have long held at arm’s length because of a general suspicion that I will not like them or profit by them.  I have from time to time been reproved by others (and myself) for not having sure and certain knowledge of them.  “How can you know you’ll dislike something […]