It is not thatpeople in the Global South ‘lack modernity’. It is that many of them are deprived ofthe promise of modernization by the inherent propensity of capital to create edgesand undersides in order to feed off them.
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delink in order to re-exist
The essence of what the author is arguing is the absolute necessity to delink from Western narratives, in order to re-exist, or even re-affirm our existence. An existence that is not shaped by a Western perspective, but it's rather self-written. This concept reminds me of what bell hooks argued against Laura Mulvey's theorization of the male gaze and its manifestation in classical cinema. While Mulvey argues for the complete passivity of female characters - who can either identify with the victim of objectification or the "bearer of the look" - thus reinforcing the objectification itself, hooks believes an oppositional reading is possible. An oppositional gaze, as she names it, is one that decides not to identify with either the victim or the perpetrator and rather suggest that women "look back" and re-write their own history. Delink in order to re-exist.
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