Publisher: Dar El Alaoui
Edition: First, 2023
ISBN: 978-9938-9684-5-3
Academic & Cultural Recognition
- University of Carthage: this book was the subject of a master's thesis (April 2025) at the Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis, devoted to an analytical translation of its opening chapter and a discussion of the concepts of "intellectual modeling."
- Tibyan Intellectual Platform: the book was ranked second on the list of "best recommended reads" at the 2026 Tunis International Book Fair.
Summary of the Thesis
The book proceeds from a bold premise: colonial rule did not end when the soldiers left — it simply transformed into an invisible "immaterial link." فوزي مسعود (Fawzi Masseoud) dismantles the mechanisms of this link, embedded deep within the mental architecture of Tunisians, showing how reality comes to be governed less by force than by control over unquestioned assumptions and habits of mind.
The Book's Conceptual Apparatus
- Intellectual architecture: the mental structure that sets the ceiling of thought and forecloses any way out of the circle of dependency.
- Thinking actors: the tools and institutions tasked with shaping minds and manufacturing, on an intellectual level, "consenting victims."
- Backward-reasoning: a distorted mental mechanism that leads people to justify an imposed reality as though it were absolute truth.
- Epistemic sovereignty: an existential necessity — liberation from imported Western concepts and frameworks.
The Book's Central Claim
"The Immaterial Link" argues that genuine sovereignty is not won by the mere departure of armies, but by reclaiming the right to name one's own reality.
Some of the Book's Themes
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