i would certainly agree with you that the way that french theory is certainly problematic (like all stupid fads/vulgarisations).
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
But i would argue that accepting "french theory's" version of these authors is giving them (the FT phenomenon) too much credit.
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Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino
I don't accept their version or the original version. I accept that its infected academia and activism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I agree with you that FT is problematic. I just think that when you place Foucault and Derridas (haven't read Lyotard enough) >
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
in context with the french epistemological tradition, it becomes clearer that they are concerned not with flimsy relativism, but
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
are actually just continuing the french project of understanding the conditions of scientific truths. Saying that science is >
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
conditioned and that these conditions may be material or cultural is not the same as saying that scientific truths have no value
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Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino
I think I've covered this. I am not claiming anything I haven't said.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You said Foucalt's work is "centered on language and relativism", that would seem like he's saying that truth has no value.pic.twitter.com/m5EEZk1ogC
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Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino
He claims that power produces knowledge via discourses and that this is historically contigent.
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This is language and relativity. This influenced post-colonialism, queer theory & intersectionality. Different ways of knowing
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