Twentieth-century Orientalism controlled freedom and knowledge through formalized repetition

Evidence

We must now investigate as exactly as possible the way twentieth-century Orientalism—inaugurated by the long process of the West’s occupation of the Orient from the 1880s on—successfully controlled freedom and knowledge; in short, the way Orientalism was fully formalized into a repeatedly produced copy of itself. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501