Having said that... Standpoint theory, for example, isn't postmodernist. It's Marxist originally. Lukacs-->Hartsock. Actually, Twitter is hopeless for this sort of thing, so I'll shut up! 


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Replying to @PhilosophyExp @HPluckrose
You are completely correct, Jeremy. Standpoint epistemology has roots in Marxism. It is associated with socialist feminists.Those such as Hartsock accept an objective view. Postmodernist feminist epistemology doesn't. More traditional feminist epistemology (consciousness raising)
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
I don't think people are criticising the radfems much right now tho. It isn't them doing what people are criticising under the name of 'postmodernism' tho some like to throw 'neo-Marxism' and 'cultural Marxism' in there wrongly. They mean the whole 'diversity' 'ID politics' thing
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PhilosophyExp
I'm not sure I agree with you. When you say "people", who do you mean? The rad fems have their own critique of postmodernism. This paper by MacKinnon is where I would start. https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3210&context=cklawreview …
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
I mean people opposed to identity politics generally. Left-liberals, centrists, conservatives (tho they're inclined to conflate Marxism & postmodernism), libertarians. Nonfeminists or liberal feminists. My readership, essentially. I'm not talking abt radfems.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PhilosophyExp
Yes, but your readership is not necessarily the academic world. You might want to look at Susan Hekman's postmodernist critique of Standpoint theory and the subsequent debate on that paper. The paper, "Truth and Method: Feminist Standdpont Theory Revisited" was published...
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
That seems like a non-sequitur. You are right that my readership is not predominantly academic and so this is unlikely to interest them as much as the ideas which are travelling into activism, leftist social conscience and wider society. The ones they see.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PhilosophyExp
Yes, I suspect my own sources, which are academic sources, are not ones that your average Twitter activist would have bother reading.
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Replying to @MacDworkin @PhilosophyExp
No, and yet the ideas which are affecting them are academic in origin so this is my reading. But I am reading Crenshaw, Butler, Applebaum, Medina, Dotson etc to address primarily intersectionality which is dominant now in feminism.
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People are still mostly working on universal liberalism which tries to make identity irrelevant & level the playing field & the marketplace of ideas where we accept other people's right to their views but argue with them. The current phenomenon seems inconsistent & hypocritical
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So I am trying to break down the intersectional mindset and this is what this was about. I've been calling it 'postmodern' because it does stem from there but this causes too much confusion & justified accusations of reductionism so I'm not sure what to call it.pic.twitter.com/z0kg2v04ho
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