Provinicialism upturned

Abstract

The project of Third Text - as a critical voice of the Third World avant-garde - along with the whole process of globalisation, is complicit in an emerging neo-modernity. However, it is a mistake to conflate this emerging neo-modernity with the old Eurocentric modernity, as if nothing has changed. If, for example, our task was once to root out Eurocentrism, now, like the provincialist bind that once shadowed non-European modernists, it is irrelevant. It has no oxygen because it is an impediment to the emergent globalising discourse of modernity. What is needed is a critical reassessment of modernity and modernism that recognises the origins and continuing relevance of their globalising disco..