There is no getting around authority and power, and no getting around the intellectual's relationship to them. How does the intellectual address auth… - Edward Said

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

[An elaborated culture has a] density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.