Comments on: The Intellectual Arms Race /2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: L.L. Wynn /2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/comment-page-1/#comment-137535 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:45:49 +0000 /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.

]]> By: Laura /2007/11/01/the-intellectual-arms-race/comment-page-1/#comment-137501 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:12:24 +0000 /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_.

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