Native informer intellectuals have replaced Orientalists in serving imperial capital
Evidence
The best way to extend Fanon’s revolutionary legacy into the contingencies of our own time is to remain awake to the way the ideological machinery of beleaguered capital keeps reinventing itself. Today, in the age of cross-coded multiculturalism, capital needs newer forms of domination, facilitated by homeless, soulless native informers who have taken over the work that the racist Orientalists once performed. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 193
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the critique of ‘good Muslims/bad Muslims’ discourse and post-9/11 co-opted dissidents in Dabashi’s broader corpus.
Related
- Native informers have internalized Orientalist discourse, making expert knowledge unnecessary. (similarity 0.82)
- Exiled intellectuals can become native informers who manufacture consent for empire (similarity 0.81)
- European native informers serve local anti-immigrant racism rather than US imperial aims. (similarity 0.81)
- US imperial machinery adopted Muslim-origin intellectuals to supply legitimizing narratives. (similarity 0.80)
- Orientalism as colonial knowledge has been replaced by new propaganda (similarity 0.80)
- Empires recruit native intellectuals to season their self-justifying narratives (similarity 0.79)
- Imperial conquest depends on manufacturing native consent to its own helplessness (similarity 0.79)
- Ex-Muslim critics abroad worsen anti-Muslim racism and shield the West. (similarity 0.78)
- Dismantling the native informer requires reclaiming American nativeness (similarity 0.78)
- Empire recruits native intellectuals to demolish local cultures that resist global capitalism (similarity 0.78)