AlsoA more realistic approach than _decolonization_, which is—in most senses of the word—impossible. What is interesting about the colonoscope—that which investigates the colonial gaze; the hegemonic standards that it has set—is the perspectivism that it has unfolded. We realize more and more positional implications, and understand from more and more perspectives. >When you do not want to speak as a ‘knower’, you talk with a lot of blanks and holes and question marks. Perhaps you have no desire to fix meaning, which may sometimes lead you to a place of nonsense. But, in language, even when you work with nonsense, people find meaning. In my writing and film practice, I work simultaneously with sense and nonsense and the new is often made to fare with the very old. It is naive to think that we can simply raze to the ground everything we have learned – which is a modernist delusion. Once you are colonized, it’s not as if you can simply reject everything the colonizer has brought in. We unavoidably import, internalize and adapt, often unintentionally, the master’s tools and values. However, to put them to use when necessary is very different from unquestioningly letting them drive our political outlook on life. > >In homage to Frantz Fanon, one can say there are three phases marking the struggle of the colonized and the marginalized. The first is that of assimilation – to survive, the dominated has to assimilate. The second is that of rejection – the younger generation often rejects with anger whatever their parents have assimilated, for example. The third phase, the most challenging one, is that of speaking ‘nearby’, with, across and in between: it is the phase of struggle. You can borrow the master’s tools, as long as you know that you are merely borrowing for strategic purposes. > >[[Trinh T. Minh-Ha]], interview with Erika Balsom, 2018.   Or, otherwise presented by Lydia Liu (1995, pp. xv-xvi): ![[Colonialoscopy lydia liu.png]] %% https://www.frieze.com/article/there-no-such-thing-documentary-interview-trinh-t-minh-ha