Cultural Theory from Dichotomy to Interface: Travelling Theory and Saidian Dialectics

This paper attempts to answer this question: with the cartelization of homogenously global cultural market that suffuses the space of human ideas, is it still possible to formulate a cultural theory or conceptual theoretical framework which sounds neither rhetorically hollow nor disablingly pessimistic? If so, is it possible to take Edward Said's concept of travelling theory as an apposite starting point? Adopting a cultural relativist critical approach, the paper probes into Said's polemics. Said’s vision of Andalusia as both an idea and location, particularly vis-à-vis recent cultural crises that have stricken the region, serves a starting point of injection and departure. The paper concluded that it is to this end of cultural design that Said's dialectics posits itself noteworthy.