I've written plenty in the thread. You're welcome to read and engage. This too is utterly wrong and bizarre. The very essence of politics is the manag...
Hardly. The bright-light topics of identity politics - cultural appropriation, representation in media and history, political correctness and so on - ...
No it was not, not in the slightest. It's in the name: civil rights. The stakes of the civil rights movement were quite clearly not that black people ...
This isn't what I understand as identity politics though. At least not the kind that everyone's talking about these days. See my post above for the sp...
Do I have pretentions? Am I pretending? Am I being 'genuine'? Are these relevant questions? These seem like your hangups. I'm not trying to talk to yo...
One of the failings of the OP was to not provide an account of identity politics itself, which I think has caused some confusion. The way I mean the t...
8 outta 40 topics on the front page have anything to do with religion. It's a snapshot, but I think that's pretty reasonable, saying nothing even abou...
Zombie'ing this somewhat, but I keep coming back to this quote which I think says much better than I did, what I was trying to say. It's from Prathen ...
From an interview with Alenka Zupancic: "Social valorization of affects basically means that we pay the plaintiff with her own money: oh, but your fee...
Ahh, I just finished reading Patchen Markell's Bound By Recognition, which is bloody fantastic in it's own right, but it's closing remarks are super p...
Hanna Pitkin - The Concept of Representation Gilles Deleuze - Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty (includes Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs) -- ...
I agree. My quibble is with those who would take this as a general model to be universally applicable, so that anything that doesn't conform to this e...
Absolutely not. If you have a paper trying to solve, say, the Riemann hypothesis, the goal of that paper is to solve the Riemann hypothesis, and not c...
Ah Ok. Yes. So long as such 'symbiosis' is understood in historical, 'evolutionary' terms - as coming into being as the result of the interplay of his...
Hardly. Presumed knowledge, unarticulated concepts, references allusive or explicit, condensed presentation of reasoning and so on do far more to make...
But that's just the argument: it's precisely because we can identify violence as one form of (the exercise of) power among others that we can understa...
But why? One can distinguish between different grades or qualities of power (high quality, low quality) as it were, without enshrining one mode of (ex...
While I appreciate the gist of this, I'm not sure the right answer is to replace identity politics with, well, more identity politics, even if the 'id...
We can use the Marxist base/superstructure distinction if you want something relatively neutral. In any case the point is to explode the distinction: ...
I think it'd be a mistake to equate societal action with mutual activity, upon which coercive power parasitically impinges. As though there were 'two ...
To make a point comprehensive. As the essay says, putting something in lay-writing often doesn't simply restate a point, but transforms it, or at leas...
In the very general sense invoked at the beginning of the OP, and not in the narrower sense the rest of the OP specifies. As for a distinction between...
Quick reply, will say more later - Apologies about my tone. It's not directed at you. I'm kinda using your posts to develop lines of thought, and some...
Clausewitz's little quip about war being politics pursued by other means comes to mind. That this 'platitude' is not inverted, speaks to his brightnes...
I'd agree that control isn't just people doing what you want. It's the ability to bring about the circumstances in which they would do what you want. ...
The only way to lend coherence to what you say is to understand control as cohesion. But that would be narrow to the point of vacuousness, if not - as...
But this is strange reasoning. When I ask the kids to fetch a cup of tea, that I don't have to resort to violence (because they love me, because it's ...
I dunno. I can only speak for what I've studied. And in any case, the question is misconceived. It ought to be: in situations in which violence is exe...
Sure, but this speaks precisely to the thinness of that control. Those 'in control' would not need to commit violence, insofar as they are in control....
What's not to get? Violence flairs at the edge of control, in conditions of instability and fragility. The powerful control with a flick of the wrist,...
To quote Corey Robin, from whom I draw inspiration: "Everyone in politics tries to sidestep the critical role and need for argument, the need to craft...
Yeah, although I think this is a confusion, and a particularly dangerous one at that. There's a difference between "I advocate X because I am Y", and ...
I totally agree with the above. The irony of those 'realists' who like to say that power flows from the barrel of a gun (tout court) is the total impo...
Alot of people are under that impression. But the logic is exactly the same, and it's simply arbitrary to think identity stops at biology. This is one...
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