Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
RSA Journal - The Case for Contamination
An excerpt (it appears) from Kwame Anthony Appiah's book on cosmopolitanism (Cosmopolitanism) in which he articulates some of the problems inherent to disucssions about authentic and inauthentic identity in a postmodern (and postcolonial) world. What always interests me in discussions about cultures meeting and mixing is the tendency of local cultures, when importing outside practices, to make them in some sense their own--tweaking and twisting and adapting. (De Certeau called this sort of thing secondary production--a production done by those who are most often seen as just consumers, and an aty of everyday creativity.) Anyway: an interesting read.
An excerpt (it appears) from Kwame Anthony Appiah's book on cosmopolitanism (Cosmopolitanism) in which he articulates some of the problems inherent to disucssions about authentic and inauthentic identity in a postmodern (and postcolonial) world. What always interests me in discussions about cultures meeting and mixing is the tendency of local cultures, when importing outside practices, to make them in some sense their own--tweaking and twisting and adapting. (De Certeau called this sort of thing secondary production--a production done by those who are most often seen as just consumers, and an aty of everyday creativity.) Anyway: an interesting read.
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