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Here’s a paper I just read at the American Comparative Literature Assoication conference:

If the post-colonial is located within the common, if asymmetrical, mimetic space including colonizer and colonized, then we can speak about the post-colonial as the post-sacrificial.  Once mimicry rather than violence characterizes asymmetrical social and cultural forces, [...]

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When institutions fail, we must direct our attention toward habits–habits are foundation of institutions, which essentially codify and police habits, and which must fail when habits degenerate; but the degeneration of habits really means the interference of one set of habits with another.  Thinking in terms of habits adds greatly to our clarity, because [...]

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