I'm Daniel Nye Griffiths, and this is my Tumblr blog, obviously, made up mainly of things I come across, things I have written, mainly for Wired UK, and other musings. Often connected to my primary blog, www.danielnyegriffiths.org
These two signifiers are, in fact, the very same twin myths of colonialism. The Stranger, or the Other, and the Strange Land – whether actually empty or filled with those Others, savages whose lives are considered forfeit and whose culture is seen as abbreviated and misshapen but who are nevertheless compelling in their very strangeness – are at the very heart of the colonial project, and their dispelling is at the heart of the postcolonial one.
