Thursday, April 24, 2008
You be the judge:
Within that conflictual economy of colonial discourse which Edward Said describes as the tension between the synchronic panoptical vision of domination--the demand for identity, stasis--and the counter-pressure of the diachrony of history--change, difference--mimicry represents an ironic [emphasis in the original!] compromise. If I may adapt Samuel Weber's formulation of the marginalizing vision of castration, ...
Answer: Professor Homi K. Bhabha is a real person with impressive academic credentials.
It's a wonder anyone even survives a college education, let alone affords one.
...mimicry represents an ironic [emphasis in the original!] compromise...
Speaking of which, my first thought upon viewing that page was to wonder if Roger Kimball's photo was chosen with the ironic goal of making George Will look like Che Guevara, or if that's just his usual dress and facial expression...?