Power remakes the Orient through expedient knowledge that erases real histories

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• Analyzing power requires simultaneously reworking both theory and historical method (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.88)
• Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.86)
• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism turned scattered testimony into a domesticated, categorical simulacrum of the Orient (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist writing reduces the Orient to an occasion for Western male reverie. (similarity 0.83)
• The Orientalist expert becomes the representative Oriental himself (similarity 0.83)
• Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism operates as a constraint on thought, not a positive doctrine. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalist self-fashioning turns the traveler into a privileged interpreter of the Orient (similarity 0.81)
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.80)
• Expert discourse reduces the Orient’s history to the expert’s experience (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism becomes national authority when backed by state institutions (similarity 0.80)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.80)
• Early Orientalists codified and domesticated the Orient into a European province of learning. (similarity 0.80)