Wokeness is more interesting than detractors or supporters suppose. An aspect I haven't seen anyone comment on:
Taking woke theory at face value it would predict that wokeness will be subverted and used as a tool of power no?
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I recently read "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" and it pretty explicitly states that knowledge is a tool of power, and proposes a new kind of knowledge that is structurally more feminist (meaning, bureaucratic)
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yeah, it's not really subversion for theory to be used as a tool for power, (monopoly of) knowledge as the way power justifies and legitimates itself is one of the main insights of woke theory
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main original insights*
"power bad" is a mischaracterization that just happens to be massively effective in practice, easily spread and guaranteed to elicit the correct emotional response and mobilize people who have christian/secular values to action
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in this case (cyber.sci-hub.se/MTAuMjMwNy8zMT), I would've hoped her proposal would reject truth in service of power, but instead it embraces it (later, not in screenshot)
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and like, call me naive, but I want to pursue knowledge without getting caught up in power relationship negotiations all the time
tbh i don't think negotiations in power relationships happen explicitly at the level of individual action, it's just a description of how things work in the grand scheme of things
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they don't articulate this but they probably know in the back of their minds that it's contradictory/straight up nonsense to "embrace truth" when you think the constructionist argument is strong lmao, it's another example of disparity between what you say and what you do
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