Globalization erases the center-periphery distinction defining comprador intellectuals

Evidence

Given the rapid deterioration of the smokescreen historically separating the domestic and foreign abuses of labor by capital that goes by the code name “globalization”, we can no longer sustain a distance between a presumed center and a projected periphery in the amorphous operation of capital. As a result, the comprador intellectual needs to be categorically reconsidered as a type— thematically extended, functionally globalized, and physically relocated to any place the emerging empire seeks to sustain the operation of capital. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 238

Categorization

• XREF: Connects globalized capital to the reader’s knowledge of labor exploitation and empire; extends the concept that domestic and foreign abuses now blur together. — connects to: Nomadism among peripheries abolishes the very notion of center and periphery — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 211; A constructed ideal intellectual combines Third World origin with metropolitan location

Related

• Exilic and comprador intellectuals both traffic dialectically between center and periphery (similarity 0.84)
• Empire recruits native intellectuals to demolish local cultures that resist global capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• The center-periphery axis no longer maps intellectual location (similarity 0.82)
• Comprador intellectuals now serve power regardless of birthplace or color (similarity 0.82)
• The postmodern periphery is often more creatively potent than the center (similarity 0.78)