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When Will the Mute Swan Sing? On the “Orientalism” and its “False Truth”

2009· article· en· W1916982700 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Huiqing Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrientalismOrientColonialismRepresentation (politics)PhilosophyHumanitiesArtEthnologyArt historyHistoryLiteraturePoliticsPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Edward Said, by surveying closely and decoding the Orientalism from the eighteenth until the mid-twentieth century, makes truth articulate from inside the Orientalist untruth, to echo Marx: the Orient could not represent themselves; they had to be represented by Europe; yet the originally “well-intentioned” Orientalist representation, the discourses of Orientalism turn out to be but of “schematization” of the entire Orient; European culture, by speaking, interpreting the Orient, managed to construct its own domination over other non-White cultures, managed to colonize the East in fine name. What passed for universal truths about European superiority and the other side inferiority yet now prove to be merely culturally specific, historically relative constructions in service of colonialism and imperialism. The Orient was “Orientalized” within systematic economy of Western imagination, invention, one-sidedness, or even untruthfulness, lies. Key words: “universal truth”; Orientalism; culture; Colonialism; Imperialism Resume: Edward Said, en examinant de pres et en decodant l'orientalisme a partir du XVIIIe jusqu'au milieu du XXe siecle, fait enoncer la verite de l'interieur du mensonge orientaliste, ce qui se repercute sur Marx : l'Orient ne pouvait pas se representer, il devait se faire representer par l'Europe; pourtant la representation orientaliste bien-intentionnee, le discours de l'orientalisme se revelent d’etre un pretexte de la schematisation de l'Orient, la culture europeenne, en parlant de l'Orient et en l’interpretant, a reussi a construire sa propre domination sur d’autres cultures non-blanches et a coloniser l'Est. Ce qui s’est passe pour des verites universelles sur la superiorite europeenne et l'inferiorite de l’autre cote prouvent encore aujourd’hui des constructions culturellement specifiques, historiquement relatives au service du colonialisme et de l'imperialisme. L'Orient etait orientalise dans l'economie systematique de l'imagination occidentale, de l'invention, de la partialite, voire des mensonges. Mots-Cles: verite universelle; orientalisme; culture; colonialisme; imperialisme

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.041

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.021
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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