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.
Yeah, sure. I experience that in India as a Brahmin male. I don't think the universal subject position is actually as unique or different from others as critical theorists make it seem. It is often the difference between view from exact top of a mountain, vs shoulder just below.
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The thing is that for any specific individual, the theoretical featureless universal subject position is contaminated by invisible minor identity variables, like say height or health condition or financial. There is no pure example of being on the top of the mountain.
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Or in Jungian terms, there is no such thing as 0% self, 100% shadow. Once you get away from that singularity position, it all becomes a matter of degree. For eg. I think I'm closer to a featureless person than half the white guys I meet, despite being nominally non-null identity.
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I wonder about that. The concept of the universal subject is very WEIRD. It seems to be that it assumes a homogenous culture with few niches/classes. I bet it expresses differently when the number and type of identity relations changes.
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WEIRD is just bad statistical sampling methodology for the most part. I don't think it has any mystically deep philosophically flaws from being a sample at the top of the mountain so to speak. You'd get different kinds of weird with other narrow samplings.
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A critical analysis of medieval Muslim trade empires would probably produce different sorts of relations.
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