However, he goes further in his analysis of the world as exhibit. He suggests that the way in which the West represents realty as an objectified "picture' in essence distorts and separates us from reality. This is in essence is the stance taken by Martin Heidegger in his critique of Western Metaphysics and dualistic thought. In his analysis of world-as-exhibit Mitchell states that. "The consolidation of the global hegemony of the West, economically and politically, can be connected not just to the imagery of Orientalism but to all the new machinery for rendering up and laying out the meaning of the world." ( Mitchell 289) The representation of reality is treated as an exhibit so that the difference between reality and illusion becomes opaque. What Mitchell implies is this analysis is that the exhibit-as-reality is a central facet of the Western objectification of reality. He adds that;

What reduced...

This machinery of representation was not confined to the exhibition and the congress. Almost everywhere that Middle Eastern visitors went they seemed to encounter the arrangement of things to stand for something larger
( Mitchell 295)

Both Said and Mitchell provide us with insight into the way that the Orient represents and distorts the Orient and the intrinsic bias in the way that the West understands the East. Mitchell adds to this discourse by pointing out that it is the very mode of representation of the West that leads to these distortions of reality.

Bibliography

MItchesl T. Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order. July 9, 2009.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Routledge: London. 1978