In the last two decades or BO, the issue of the "Other" has permeated the turbulent field of Western cultural and literary theories. It seems that the Other discourse can provide discursive space for the articulation of the colonized/marginalized. The underlying hostilities toward foreign/master discourse have thus been erased, and the adaptation of the Other discourse in the culturalperiphery turns out to be unprecedentedly widespread and penetrating.However, in this paper, the discourse of the Other is conceived as asimilar, if different, kind of master discourse that may disguise thecolonizing grand narrative. The colonizer's invasion of territorieshas transformed into an invasion of cultural and discursive space.The discourse of the Other, if unexamined, will merely, in this lineof thought, extend the cultural and discursive border of the grandnarrative. While the discursive contest secured by the Otherdiscourse is an opportunity for the Other to speak and write back, wecannot afford to forget that the Other discourse is a product of thediecursive center in the West. This is exactly the predicament,albeit also the condition, of all practice of the critical Other. Inthis paper, the predicament of the Other is seen as a problem that hasto be examined in the light of professionalization and commodification.The professionalization in the cultural periphery may make room formore and more "otherness machines" that manufacture marginalcultural commodities for customers in the discursive center. Thispaper tries to examine the complicity between this professionalizationand commodification of the "Other" in the cultural periphery. Throughsuch 'an examination, new discursive space may be established toquestion the politics of .the legitimation of the "Other" discourse inthe cultural periphery.