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What We Must Eliminate Are Systems Of Representation That Carry With Them The Authority Which Has Become Repressive Because It Doesn't Permit Or Make Room For Interventions On The Part Of Those Represented.

Speaking As A New Yorker, I Found It A Shocking And Terrifying Event [9/11], Particularly The Scale Of It. At Bottom, It Was An Implacable Desire To Do Harm To Innocent People. It Was Aimed At Symbols: The World Trade Center, The Heart Of American Capitalism, And The Pentagon, The Headquarters Of The American Military Establishment.

The Orient That Appears In Orientalism, Then, Is A System Of Representations Framed By A Whole Set Of Forces That Brought The Orient Into Western Learning, Western Consciousness, And Later, Western Empire.... The Orient Is The Stage On Which The Whole East Is Confined. On This Stage Will Appear The Figures Whose Role It Is To Represent The Larger Whole From Which They Emenate. The Orient Then Seems To Be, Not An Unlimited Extension Beyond The Familiar European World, But Rather A Closed Field, A Theatrical Stage Affixed To Europe.

[9/11] Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other Reason Than To Do It.

Ideas, Cultures, And Histories Cannot Seriously Be Understood Or Studied Without Their Force, Or More Precisely Their Configurations Of Power, Also Being Studied.