I wonder how collective Arab paranoia acts as a unifying force for Arab/Muslim identity and how the oft-quoted jolt of modernity has left them without a, what is it people say, civil society cognitive mapping. I wrote a pretty crappy paper on the material/linguistic foundations of the Ummah in the modern age and I only wish I had read more about 'the empty gesture' and the Big Other in preparing for it, or else I wouldn't have used so many Benedict Anderson quotes. I would have instead probably gone on some ersatz rant pasting together critical theory snippets and Butrus al-Bustani quotes to say something about how the Ummah nowadays reinforces its communal identity (or masks the lack thereof) with paranoia as the gaze of the Other. الاخر الكبير has a nice ring to it.
I wonder how collective Arab paranoia acts as a unifying force for Arab/Muslim identity and how the oft-quoted jolt of modernity has left them without a, what is it people say, civil society cognitive mapping. I wrote a pretty crappy paper on the material/linguistic foundations of the Ummah in the modern age and I only wish I had read more about 'the empty gesture' and the Big Other in preparing for it, or else I wouldn't have used so many Benedict Anderson quotes. I would have instead probably gone on some ersatz rant pasting together critical theory snippets and Butrus al-Bustani quotes to say something about how the Ummah nowadays reinforces its communal identity (or masks the lack thereof) with paranoia as the gaze of the Other. الاخر الكبير has a nice ring to it.
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