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Chapter 3: Plantations, enlightenment: humanity distinguishes itself…
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enlightenment: humanity distinguishes itself through the use of reason; which can be used to create knowledge that is universal
when colonisers saw cultural difference, they interpreted the ways in which people acted differently as irrational. the universality of reason was challenged
The justification for modern colonialism was that europeans were rationally superior (civilising mission)
the enlightenment asserted that there was only one way of knowing: rationality in the specific way that enlightenment thinkers chose to define rationality
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anti-colonial thinking is about how racial capitalism took a bunch of existing things (such as slavery), and appropriated them into durable systems of way more intense oppression.
modern capitalism did not take things from scratch, it appropriates things and puts them into its own use.
potential link to fanon: slavery is a system in which the master does not know their superior status unless they have the slave standing right in front of them
life insurance by your employer is literally a calculation of how much you are worth, of your productivity.
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manjapra states that rationality exists everywhere, it just doesn't have to exist in the same way that enlightenment thinkers envisioned it.
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the enlightenment objectified human beings; people that were devoid of rationality were not seen as human, as people anymore.
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ontology: the production of facts; the study of being, of categorisation