Anti-humanist scholarship rose alongside 1980s imperial consolidation

Evidence

It is significant that these anti-humanisms have come to dominate so much of American scholarship on the eve of the unprecedented imperialist consolidations of the present decade. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 365

Categorization

• QUESTION: What is the claimed causal link between anti-humanist academic fashion and imperialist consolidation? Ahmad asserts timing but leaves the mechanism implicit here.