This week on the blog, I gush about Dune (2021)! More to the point, I talk about why I think the film is a faithful adaptation, but not a dogmatic one and also how the film brilliantly presents a post colonial reading of the (first part of the) book.https://acoup.blog/2021/11/05/miscellanea-reflections-on-the-sands-of-dune/ …
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Important not to fetishize words like "colonial". Empires have existed for a very long time, and they still do -- ask a Uyghur or a Tibetan or a Mongol in Inner Mongolia. The Han started out in a restricted area of the Yellow River valley.
Colonialism and Empire are not coextensive ideas and also I'm not sure why you think I am unaware that empire was never and is not now only a past-tense or European feature. I note exactly as much all over the blog.
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Post-colonialism is still a useful descriptor for the viewpoints and modes of thinking which emerged through and out of the collapse of the modern European empires, an event which spawned a distinctive intellectual and cultural reaction.
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I'm familiar with it and have always though it was rather fatuous, a relic of thinking of history in terms of "stages" or "progress", the teleological fallacy. I see it as more of an endless recurrence with differences being mostly superficial.
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The Dune series brings this out; Paul overthrows one empire and erects another. So it goes, so it goes, so it goes, and the wheel turns.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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PS: didn't think -you- were confusing the two; "post-colonial" discourse, however, does.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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