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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it?

We look into our habit of cropping out infrastructure and ask whether reading the raw city makes us better travelers or something worse.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #bookpodcast #criticalreading #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino #invisiblecities

Western media apply cultural essentialism to Asian societies while exempting themselves from similar scrutiny, shaping global perceptions and policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/09/japan/media-view-asia-orientalist-lens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #edwardsaid #orientalism #sanaetakaichi #sanseitoparty #us #donaldtrump #ice #india #southeastasia #americafirst #fukushimano1 #media

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

We investigate Said's "imaginative geographies" that we project onto other lands, examine Italo Calvino’s 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, Sherlock Holmes tours, and the film 𝘓𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦. Also, Bloomsday in Dublin and Iain Sinclair's 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭.

https://waywordsstudio.com/.../waywords.../mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #booksandsociety #readingforchange #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

Do we really need to crop out the ugly stuff to make our vacation pics look fire? Does embracing the raw city make us better travelers ... or just a bunch of gawkers playing it safe?

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #bookpodcast #travelogues #literature #podcast #books #reading #bloomsday #edwardsaid #davidharvey #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino #invisiblecities

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 7.07 𝑴𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 -

How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it?

We look into our habit of cropping out infrastructure and ask whether reading the raw city makes us better travelers or something worse.

https://waywordsstudio.com/.../waywords.../mapping-dreams/

#frictionalreading #bookpodcast #criticalreading #literature #books #reading #bloomsday #edwardsaid #sherlockholmes #lahaine #londonorbital #italocalvino

Terugkijkwaardige zomergast! #NasrahHabiballah, oud correspondent in #Israël en #Palestina, die toch binnen het instituut de #NOS de kwestie transparant heeft belicht in die jaren (minder enkel het NL perspectief). Mooie fragmenten die je bijna allemaal wel helemaal wil terugzien, #EdwardSaid, #GazaSoundMan... https://www.vpro.nl/zomergasten/artikelen/nasrah-habiballah

#zomergasten2026 #zomergasten

Reflections on Exile : And Other Literary and Cultural Essays by Edward Said (EPUB)
Author: Edward Said
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/reflections-on-exile-and-other-literary-and-cultural-essays-1862074445/
#, #EdwardSaid

The West has long seen Iran’s oil as a prize to be claimed. #Block2 #BP #BritishPetroleum #EdwardSaid #HormuzBlockade #Iran #IranOil #IranWar #KhargIsland #MiddleEast #Oilprices #TheConversation
https://iwpost.com/the-west-has-long-seen-irans-oil-as-a-prize-to-be-claimed/?fsp_sid=10695

Palestine/Israel: Edward Said on ‘The One-State Solution’
https://world-outlook.com/2026/06/08/palestine-israel-edward-said-on-the-one-state-solution/

June 8 2026

... It is a war that has engulfed other parts of the #MiddleEast, with repeated invasions and massive bombings of #Lebanon — including the current one launched as part of the #US.- #Israeli war on #Iran. #Palestinians face abysmal conditions of massacres and colonization, particularly in #Gaza, and land grabs, home demolitions, and growing dispossession in the #WestBank. The Palestinian national movement is facing its "darkest day" since the 1948 #Nakba, as Palestinian American scholar #RashidKhalidi has put it. In this context WorldOutlook is re-publishing an essay by another Palestinian leader, #EdwardSaid, who in 1999 described the "two-state" perspective as a dead end and argued that sustainable peace can only be achieved through a binational, democratic, secular state in #Palestine / #Israel with equal rights for all its citizens.

#FreePalestine
#StopStarvingGaza
#news #politics

A colony is usually founded on a #BigLie: a strategic untruth on which an edifice of mendacity can be presented as truth. The biggest is "#TerraNullius", the notion of an empty land which may lawfully be grabbed.

For 4 decades after 1948, #zionism's lie of an "empty land" dominated in Europe & America. Then a new generation of #Palestinian & #Israeli scholars documented the #Nakba, destroying #GoldaMeir's Big Lie.

#EdwardSaid is right. #Israel was created by #EthnicCleansing of #Palestine.

"Stop patronising hijabi Muslim women by telling them to consider how other Muslim women may find hijab oppressive, as if we have not already done so.

We know how religion is weaponised in places where Muslims are the majority. We also know how your governments weaponise anti-Muslim rhetoric globally, and we understand where Islam stands in the global order.

Who are you trying to fool here?

Treating Muslim subjects as if we are insulated from that order and reminding us that “contradictions exist” is a projection of the privilege enjoyed by those who benefit from that system."

https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/

#hijab #orientalism #muslim #liberalism #press #islamophobia #edwardsaid #activism #authoritarianism #marxism #liberalfeminism #Islam #Iran #afghanistan #indonesia #palestine

"Muslims are not neutral subjects in the global order, and Islam is already positioned as suspect within it. The conversation about hijab does not happen in a vacuum. Take authoritarianism in Iran, for example.

Instead of seeing authoritarianism as inherently gendered and violent, as an inevitable feature of patriarchy, as a system that justifies itself by co-opting any moral framework, you view it as either “uniquely Islam”, an “Abrahamic religions issue”, or “proof that all religions are oppressive.” Why don’t you name a secular, non-authoritarian, non-misogynistic nation-state, then?"

https://wrzky.com/orientalism

#authoritarianism #Iran #Islam #Muslim #Orientalism #edwardsaid #hijab #press #anarchism #activism #politics #critique #muslimah #muslimwomen #Indonesian #palestine #imperialism #communism #marxism

Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/

A vélo, le soleil dans les yeux. Ébloui, une sensation que je retrouvai avec le plus grand plaisir ce lundi matin. La semaine s’annonce à nouveau perturbée, profitons-en.

Retour de la pluie ce mardi matin. L’accalmie aura été de très courte durée. Il fait autour de 2°C et le trajet à vélo se fera sous une faible pluie qui semble proche de la neige fondue.

Ce mercredi matin je suis […]

Après une fin de semaine bien pluvieuse, le Vidourle est en grande forme ce lundi matin. Point de débordement, mais le fleuve fait la démonstration de sa vigueur.

Comme nous ne pouvons nier la particulière « humidité » de cet hiver, j’ai extrait les données d’une station météorologique pour comparer la pluviométrie de ces six dernières années (du 19 octobre inclus au 19 janvier […]

Un lundi matin où la température avoisine les 0°C et où le ciel est encore dégagé. Le calme règne sur les berges du Vidourle.

Photo à la hauteur de la météo de ce mardi. Ce matin j’ai roulé tout le long sous une fine pluie. L’obscurité et le temps étaient tels que je n’ai pas pris ma photo quotidienne du Vidourle. En échange, je vous propose celle de l’un de ses nombreux petits […]

Ce matin, premier lundi de l’année, le thermomètre avoisinait les -5°C. Une vague de froid semble installée pour quelques jours sur la France.

Ce mardi, la température est légèrement plus douce (autour de -3°C), mais le froid est vif à vélo. Je ne croise qu’une personne qui marche d’un pas pressé sur la voie verte, dans une complète obscurité.

Ce mercredi matin, je suis parti […]

From the archives (1999) by #EdwardSaïd
NYTimes: The One-State Solution
The One-State Solution https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/magazine/the-one-state-solution.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

« L'Orient et l'islam ont une sorte de statut irréel, phénoménologiquement réduit, qui les rend inaccessibles à tous, sauf aux experts occidentaux. Depuis le début des spéculations occidentales sur l'Orient, la seule chose que l'Orient ne pouvait pas faire était de se représenter lui-même. Les preuves concernant l'Orient n'étaient crédibles qu'après avoir été passées au crible et confirmées par le feu raffineur du travail des orientalistes. »

― Edward W. Said, Orientalisme

#culture #étudesSubalternes #islamophobie #orientalisme #suprémacismeBlanc #mandats #histoire #EdwardSaid #hégémonie #citation #citations

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”

― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

#culture #subalternStudies #islamophobia #orientalism #whiteSupremacy #mandates #history #EdwardSaid #hegemony #quote #quotes

« On comprend mieux la persistance et la durabilité des systèmes hégémoniques saturants comme la culture quand on se rend compte que leurs contraintes internes sur les écrivains et les penseurs étaient productives, et pas uniquement inhibitrices. »

― Edward Said

#culture #étudesSubalternes #domination #orientalisme #EmpireOttoman #mandats #histoire #EdwardSaid #hégémonie #citation #citations

"We can better understand the persistence and the durability of saturating hegemonic systems like culture when we realize that their internal constraints upon writers and thinkers were productive, not unilaterally inhibiting."

― Edward Said

#culture #subalternStudies #domination #orientalism #OttomanEmpire #mandates #history #EdwardSaid #hegemony #quote #quotes

📚❤️ | #NewBooks #5:

📖 „Orientalism“
✍️ Edward W. Said
🏛️ Penguin Classics

#bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagramgermanyِ #book #books #nonfiction #edwardwsaidorientalism #edwardsaid