ABSTRACT
The clash of civilisations has been alternatively termed the clash of barbarisms by Gilbert Achcar, the clash of fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali and the clash of definitions by Edward Said. This chapter explains the term regime of truth which is derived and reinterpreted from Michel Foucault. The clash regime occupies and holds on to an overbearing one-dimensional habitat from which the critical difference, the power of negation is excluded. So far the chapter suggests that there are innumerable discourses permeating societies in East and west constituting the idea that there exists some kind of clash between us and them. By necessity it confines to a perusal of the meta-theoretical mechanisms underlying the clash regime. Cultural artefacts such as the clash regime are comparable to nationalisms, imperialisms, or religious fundamentalists. In terms of a counter-narrative to the clash regime such an understanding of self and other supports critical theory and anti-foundational research more generally that brings out commonalities within difference.
