"Like charismatic Candace Owens says on Fox News these days, race does not
exist to her. Neither does it to me. And gender is merely a rough but not
fixed orientation toward dividual archetypes of tribal contribution."
What a strikingly ahistorical, antimaterialist, and ideological statement.
Anyo
Dear Ian
It's great that you bring up Asad Haider because he is a brilliant
historian of identity politics and I agree with him that the big shift
happened in 1977. But while for Haider 1977 meant a deepening of
emancipatory struggle to include feminist and anti-racist minoritarian
causes that he
If you you think being of critical and suspicious of theological
metanarratives is intellectually lazy, wait until you hear about
faux-Marxist class reductionism!
In all seriousness, for those of you looking for actually useful analyses
of the complex relations between identity, class, and emanci
Dear Joseph
While you resentfully remain obsessed with my tonality and my etiquette (as
if this was some smelling salt-driven cocktail party at a ship doomed to
sink) I do prefer to stay with the topic I brought up.
Forget about me. Ans forget about Joseph's preoccupation with my style and
whateve
Alexander addresses me with an injunction and second-guesses my answer: "What
is your tactic? Further excuses for not dealing with the crisis of the left?"
My answer is that I do not have the slightest idea, and that anyone who claims
to have one is either a liar, fool, or utopian dictator. And
