Thursday, October 18, 2007

Muppidi

Muppidi addresses Scary's notion of "object responsibilities" (282). I found this argument to be particularly interesting. The day-to-day expectations that individuals possess dramatically influence the way we act and perceive the world around us. From a political vantage point, this is evident in the way we believe objects in the colonial order to be similar to the full subjects of that order. Evaluating actors failure to meet expectations allows us greater incite into the practice in the post colonial order.

Although I appreciate Muppidi's use of the Clinton, Bush and Blair throughout the argument, I was wondering if are other Western examples that would suffice. I am curious to see this argument is actually just US-British- crentic because of our imperial role throughout the 20th century. Certainly other states had imperial roles that should be evaluated.

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