Trying to represent and perform identity in your pursuit of interests and curiosities is a bit like trying to have a full conversation with a cat, like it understands human language. Nature might respond somewhat to aspects of identity but the performance is largely lost on it.
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I think this is the deepest intellectual weakness of identitarianism. It forgoes genuine curiosity and general interestedness in the universe for a never-break-character identity performance that only works on other humans.
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I don’t think I have any strongly gendered or ethnic or racialized interests. The closest I come is probably vegetarianism/veganism, which has identity roots, and strongly modulates my food related curiosities and interests.
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I suspect when an identitarian viewpoint actually produces interesting, curiosity-provoking ideas, it does so by breaking out of the original category. For example, feminism and temporality.
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I don’t know much about feminism, but the “waves” model seems clumsy for describing at least the development of the philosophy. Perhaps it works for the politics.
The philosophy seems to have developed more like parallel lineages with continuity of ideas across generations.
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“World viewed from X POV for the sake of viewing it from X POV” will never be interesting to intellectually alive thinkers even in group X. But if X morphs into a weird filter of general interest, then everybody gets interested, X or not X.
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World viewed from X POV, where I am a member of group Y is interesting to me. As a straight white dude much of my identity is implicit. The culture is shaped around it so it’s invisible. Seeing it from another’s identity which must be more explicitly defined is interesting.
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Not if Y is performing their identity 100% in generating that work. My assertion is that performance is a curiosity/interest blinding force. It’s only interesting if it is interested, ie if Y can break out of Y mode to look at world in ways X may not.
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Ok I think I’ve sorted it out, and I think we agree. I was not disagreeing just trying to say that if you are investigating identity it can be revealing to observe pure identity performers. Especially if you are of the unnamed class.
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Hang on a sec. I’ve got to parse our X and Y to trying and understand what we’re saying to each other. 🤣

