Comments on: The Intellectual Arms Race http://savageminds.org/2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 16:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: L.L. Wynn http://savageminds.org/2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/comment-page-1/#comment-137535 L.L. Wynn Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:45:49 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/#comment-137535 The theories of Edward Said circulate widely in Saudi Arabia; "orientalist" is "mustashriq." I heard people use it who had no training in the social sciences and who scarcely knew who Said was, but could very effectively reproduce the main arguments of Orientalism. The theories of Edward Said circulate widely in Saudi Arabia; “orientalist” is “mustashriq.” I heard people use it who had no training in the social sciences and who scarcely knew who Said was, but could very effectively reproduce the main arguments of Orientalism.

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]]> By: Laura http://savageminds.org/2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/comment-page-1/#comment-137501 Laura Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:12:24 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/#comment-137501 During WWII, many European and American physicists censored their own work so that the Germans wouldn't get wind of the emerging developments in nuclear physics. I wonder if we should be buying up copies of dangerous texts like _The Prison Notebooks_ or subaltern critiques of the colonial nation-state, to keep them out of the hands of Al Qaeda sympathizers. What if terrorists start launching passages from _Nickel and Dimed_ at underpaid soldiers working in the company of overcompensated civilian contractors? We need to be preemptive - anthropologists should be thinking carefully about - oh, God - _what Al Qaeda could do with Jean Baudrillard_. Let's all pray they don't get hold of _Writing Culture_. During WWII, many European and American physicists censored their own work so that the Germans wouldn’t get wind of the emerging developments in nuclear physics. I wonder if we should be buying up copies of dangerous texts like _The Prison Notebooks_ or subaltern critiques of the colonial nation-state, to keep them out of the hands of Al Qaeda sympathizers. What if terrorists start launching passages from _Nickel and Dimed_ at underpaid soldiers working in the company of overcompensated civilian contractors? We need to be preemptive – anthropologists should be thinking carefully about – oh, God – _what Al Qaeda could do with Jean Baudrillard_.

Let’s all pray they don’t get hold of _Writing Culture_.

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