转自博客“理论车间”

欧洲和西方仅仅是它们自己么？它们必须被外省化，也就是，必须将它们从中心拖出来：欧洲现代化其实就是全球历史里的一部分，帝国主义才是其实质；而且我们第三世界也同样很愿意将它们当作中心，当作是全世界的现代性的原生点，第三世界的民族主义恰恰是对于西方现代性意识形态的现代化，拥戴了西方的中心地位；将欧洲外省化，就是要逆转这一起趋向：

This Europe, like "the West," is demonstrably an imaginary entity, but the demonstration as such does not lessen its appeal or power. The project of provincializing "Europe" has to include certain other additional moves: 1) the recognition that Europe's acquisition of the adjective modern for itself is a piece of global history of which an integral part is the story of European imperialism; and 2) the understanding that this equating of a certain version of Europe with "modernity" is not the work of Europeans alone; third-world nationalisms, as modernizing ideologies par excellence, have been equal partners in the process. I do not mean to overlook the anti-imperial moments in the careers of these nationalisms; I only underscore the point that the project of provincializing "Europe" cannot be a nationalist, nativist, or atavistic project. In unraveling the necessary entanglement of history – a disciplined and institutionally regulated form of collective memory – with the grand narratives of "rights," "citizenship," the nation state, "public" and "private" spheres, one cannot but problematize "India" at the same time as one dismantles "Europe（《后殖民性的历史的伪饰》）."

从这一逻辑推下去，我们甚至都可以说，西方如果没有东方的被殖民，就没有我们今天看到的西方；西方是我们第三世界附庸出来的。中国和西方是处于一种黑格尔说的主奴关系里的？