Cultures are unequally displaced practices, not just fragmented ones

Evidence

My thought is not that this claim is arrogant, or otherwise morally tainted, but that it may be true. “Cultures” are indeed fragmented and interdependent, as critics never tire of reminding us. But cultures are also unequally displaced practices. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 739

Categorization

• XREF: A corrective to the multicultural ‘cultures are intertwined’ platitude — asymmetric power rather than mere interconnection is the operative fact, homologous to Cooper’s emphasis on who holds disciplinary power. — connects to: Composite marginal cultures speak a baroque that replaces the intolerance of classicisms — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 466
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 739