The New York Review of Books: Occidentalism

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

I had intended to recommend this yesterday.....the authors 
ambitions, it appeared to me, exceeded their reach....but it was a 
very informative piece and a very interesting argument.....I urge 
folks to check it out........it really does offer a different perspective 
on "the struggle"....

In the same issue there is a review of a book on the history of 
London........Skim it - there is yet another of those Pynchonian 
concurrences which MUST be coincidental, or maybe not......

Rent Way of the Gun TODAY! That writer is without peer in the 
US.......

......and hi, paul.......

love,
cfa

> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15100
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> This is a discussion of what the authors call "occidentalism." The
> word has been coined I believe both along the lines of words like
> racism and sexism, but its coinage is also an obvious nod to the term
> "orientalism." Anyway, I found the article a help in organizing my
> thinking about war and conflict in the world in the past and in the
> present. MalignD's post of a minute ago reminded me of its existence
> in the current NY Review of Books.
> 
>   P.
>