Humanism Is The Only - I Would

I Take Criticism So Seriously As To Believe That, Even In The Midst Of A Battle In Which One Is Unmistakably On One Side Against Another, There Should Be Criticism, Because There Must Be Critical Consciousness If There Are To Be Issues, Problems, Values, Even Lives To Be Fought For... Criticism Must Think Of Itself As Life-enhancing And Constitutively Opposed To Every Form Of Tyranny, Domination, And Abuse; Its Social Goals Are Noncoercive Knowledge Produced In The Interests Of Human Freedom.

The Sense Of Islam As A Threatening Other - With Muslims Depicted As Fanatical, Violent, Lustful, Irrational - Develops During The Colonial Period In What I Called Orientalism. The Study Of The Other Has A Lot To Do With The Control And Dominance Of Europe And The West Generally In The Islamic World. And It Has Persisted Because It's Based Very, Very Deeply In Religious Roots, Where Islam Is Seen As A Kind Of Competitor Of Christianity.

Density, Complexity, And Historical-semantic Value That Is So Strong As To Make Politics Possible... Gramsci's Insight Is To Have Recognised That Subordination, Fracturing, Diffusion, Reproducing, As Much As Producing, Creating, Forcing, Guiding, Are Necessary Aspects Of Elaboration.

Much As I Have No Wish To Hurt Anyone's Feelings, My First Obligation Has Not Been To Be Nice But To Be True To My Perhaps Peculiar Memories, Experiences And Feelings.

The Just Response To This Terrible Event [9/11] Should Be To Go Immediately To The World Community, The United Nations. The Rule Of International Law Should Be Marshaled, But It's Probably Too Late Because The United States Has Never Done That; It's Always Gone It Alone.