contingency, irony, and solidarity is the closest thing to a manual for how to navigate the post-broadcast media landscape as exists anywhere, I think. pdf: http://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/courses_readings/rorty/rorty_CIS_full.pdf …
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"intersectionality" doesn't capture how your identities for different contexts are disjoint; you're a different person in different social contexts. you're not role A and role B, you're role A in one context and role B in another. there is no one "you"
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the shift from broadcast media to the internet means that there isn't a global shared context to fall back on. each group of people you interact with shares a different social context with you. so you have to have more identities
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I’d read an edition of rorty with all the communism edited out
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he's extremely wishy-washy liberal for a philosopher
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honestly I got owned by this because I hate rorty and read this without knowing who it was and it was really good
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