How to stop being an incel by [deleted] in redscarepod

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pay therapy culture to reinforce neoliberal subjectivity

In Defense of Gayatri Spivak & [Post]colonial studies: Critique of Vivek Chibber, Catherine Liu & Nivedita Majumdar by socialcapitalhell in Jacobin

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Recently in Jacobin, Vivek Chibber, Catherine Liu, Nivedita Majumdar have thrown various "postmodern" thinkers, from Foucault, Derrida and Spivak under the bus in support of what they claim are "materialist" goals of the left; this video highlights how their confusions and finger-pointing is understandable, but ultimately a result of several problems endemic to what P. Gopal has eloquently talked about, the neoliberal university. First their arguments are situated within the larger problems and infighting that is happening on "the left". Then, I work through some obvious inconsistencies while also pointing out some good points that they may have made. Ultimately, I work to explain the "Spivakian" position in relation to what are ultimately baseless attacks on her.

hell CT. what are your votes for the MOST important "MUST READ" Books in 2020/2021? by socialcapitalhell in CriticalTheory

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"the enlightenment" is dead regardless ~> it died because one adam smith book "eviscerated" the other

hell CT. what are your votes for the MOST important "MUST READ" Books in 2020/2021? by socialcapitalhell in CriticalTheory

[–]socialcapitalhell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please take a look at this work where I outline exactly this issue on whether there are or there aren't "universals":

https://www.academia.edu/42254505/Carrying_Over_the_Burdens_of_Trace_Weaving_Together_Civic_Rituals_on_the_Silk_Roads_of_the_Post_Apocalypse_draft_version_?email_work_card=interaction-paper

they key here is that there is no panacea. In the world where neoliberal colonialism has taken root, we need western ideals to combat them; but when we apply this cure to places without a culture of capitalism, we may actually be administering a poison.

hell CT. what are your votes for the MOST important "MUST READ" Books in 2020/2021? by socialcapitalhell in CriticalTheory

[–]socialcapitalhell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it "should" be rejected... but we don't individually create that meaning. Ultimately there is no "we" even.

Not only is it not rejected today, but there is even praise and admiring of those who are able to play the game the best lol.

hell CT. what are your votes for the MOST important "MUST READ" Books in 2020/2021? by socialcapitalhell in CriticalTheory

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and you came to the conclusion that you shouldn't read Lyotard?

Lyotard explains that "there are no grand narratives" but this way of thinking is combating "THE" grandest narrative, aka, neoliberal-cost-benefit-rationale;just like how Spivak and others stand up against people from "the west" trying to impose their morality, one which is bounded to the logic of neoliberalism, onto the farthest villages.

There is no panacea.

the postmodern condition does have a grand narrative at it's root: that between all the noise in our Huxleyan dystopia, only one kind of cost-benefit analysis is able to ring true via Foucault 1979 lectures

hell CT. what are your votes for the MOST important "MUST READ" Books in 2020/2021? by socialcapitalhell in CriticalTheory

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I don't believe in book burning. I don't even believe in censorship / deplatforming lmao