I wasted probably thousands of hours in total arguing fruitlessly with creationists. I'm not going to make the same mistake with people who insist postmodern identity/grievance studies critical theory is Marxist Frankfurt School critical theory. Believe what you want.
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I don't doubt they are influenced by Foucault (and other poststructuralists), as well. I believe Foucault & Marcuse each provide a pincer to the social justice radical activism that has been marching through the major institutions in America since the 60s. PoMo deconstructs...
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I suspect that indirectly SJW, intersectional feminism and grievance studies may also be influenced by selective reading of Raoul Vaneigem (Situationism). “A community which is not built on individual demands ... can only reinforce the oppressive violence of power.”
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It should be easy enough to find them doing that if they have.
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I take that back. Cursory search reveals that Vaneigem is typically used to attack identity politics, esp. feminism.
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It hasn't come up in my reading at all. But that is quite narrow.
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Habermas-to-Angela Davis-to-critical race theory-to-intersectional feminism?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tBPATvEq5U#action=share …
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Knock yourself out if you can show it. I've just spent several years tracing the scholarship back to the postmodernists and with intersectionality, it is explicitly defined as this by the founder, Crenshaw, but I'll be open to similar evidence of another track.
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Crenshaw states the problem with this approach: intersectionality is contemporary politics plus postmodernism. Contemporary politics doesn't write papers or cite sources. And postmodernism *doesn't* explain the activism. Crenshaw even agrees that Postmodernism is insufficient. >
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Maybe a history of activism? But this is part of the problem with scholarship that's motivated by external intellectual activities: influences are inevitably obscured.
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