Imperial agents are the counterpart to bureaucratic Orientalist institutions

Evidence

The role of the early Orientalists like Renan, Sacy, and Lane was to provide their work and the Orient together with a mise en scène; later Orientalists, scholarly or imaginative, took firm hold of the scene. Still later, as the scene required management, it became clear that institutions and governments were better at the game of management than individuals. This is the legacy of nineteenth-century Orientalism to which the twentieth century has become inheritor. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism functioned like bureaucracy, treating humans as occasions for files; Imperial agents find satisfaction in pure functioning, not in achieved ends; An institutional network of interests sustains unchanging orientalist dogma (+2 more)

Related

• Orientalism functioned like bureaucracy, treating humans as occasions for files (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management (similarity 0.86)
• Individual Orientalist authority was tied to the growth of institutional specializations (similarity 0.83)
• Institutional accreditation transformed Orientalism from amateur pursuit into credentialed Science (similarity 0.83)
• Institutional Orientalism originated in Britain and France, then the Germans refined it (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalist conversion is an institutional discipline tied to Western political norms (similarity 0.82)
• An institutional network of interests sustains unchanging orientalist dogma (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Field operatives translated academic Orientalism into practical imperial effectiveness. (similarity 0.78)
• Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Imperial agents find satisfaction in pure functioning, not in achieved ends #expands (0.80)
• An institutional network of interests sustains unchanging orientalist dogma #expands (0.80)
• Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management #expands (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501
• Orientalism functioned like bureaucracy, treating humans as occasions for files #corroborates (0.72)
• Race and bureaucracy are imperialism’s two paired ruling devices #corroborates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 534