Hall’s entire intellectual project was conducted from outside the Eurocentric system

Evidence

Returning to the question of his own identity, he ends by averring that while his work has not, on the whole, been done “from a specifically Caribbean position,” it has all been done from the “position of those who are ex-centric to the Eurocentric system,” as he has pursued a project of “polemicising the Eurocentric frontier.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 900

Categorization

• XREF: ‘the ex-centric position’ and ‘polemicizing the Eurocentric frontier’ is the exact stance that underlies Said’s Orientalism project and frames the whole Islamophobia reading agenda — the enunciation point of the field itself.