Edward Said | Intervention

Public Official As Public Intellectual

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Edward Said, MKO, NANS, O’dua People’s Congress, Paul Baran, Young Men Christian AssociationNo CommentsViews:

In December 2022, Mallam Salihu Lukman, a former president of the NANS that Nigerians know, turned 60. On July 25th, 2023, it was the turn of Bamidele Opeyemi, another former president of NA... Read more

How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

The Relevance of the Conceptual or Theoretical Framework in Modern Literary Studies

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Deconstruction, Edward Said, Formalism, Structuralism1 CommentViews:

While non-specialists might find this to be a relatively tough text, it was quite okay for the audience for which it was meant. As an all-comer platform, Intervention is obliged to publish i... Read more

‘Money Heist’ is Here, Catching On Steadily

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Bank of Spain, Edward Said, FANG, Money HeistNo CommentsViews:

Season 5 of Money Heist, a Netflix blockbuster is finally out! Those who are knowledgeable about it say that the production, set in Spain, is one of the most watched series on Netflix and ha... Read more

The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Posted By: adminon: August 06, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Alex Callinicos, David Harvey, Edward Said, Empire, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hardt & Negri, Kwame Nkrumah, NELSON MANDELA, NeoliberalismNo CommentsViews:

Triple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, the open access journal, would appear to have kick-started the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s fellow traveler in articul... Read more

Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Aime Cesaire, Capitalism, Chinua Achebe, Colonialism in Africa, Decolonisation of education, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Globalectics, Home, Literature, Mau Mau, neocolonialism, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Writing in EnglishNo CommentsViews:

Interveiw By Mahdi Ganjavi, Ngugi Wa Thiongo needs no introduction in the world of Letters. Except the dosage of post modernist lexicons observable in his language, the critical postcolonia... Read more