"The postcolonial subject, which was none other than the colonial subject multiplied by the illusion of emancipation, was thus released into the force field of that very same colonial history on a wild goose chase of ideological certainty before and after political convictions. ... The world was thus sealed in a self-sustaining binary that has kept repeating, revealing, and concealing itself. Finally coming to full historical consciousness in terms of their own agential sovereignty and worldly subjection, "the Arab" and "the Muslim" are now exiting that trap, having identified it as the simulacrum of a renewed pact with humanity - beyond the European entrapping of "humanism". Arabs and Muslims in revolt have no crisis of the subject, no problem with their cogito. "The work of our time," Marx rightly declared is "to clarify to itself the meaning of its own desires". Indeed - and in that spirit I have written The Arab Spring."
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 04:07:14 +0000
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