Philosophy
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Philosophy
Episode 83: Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole — Overthink podcast
overthinkpodcast.comTo have a "standpoint" means to be able to not only experience the harms of a social or political system, but to recognize the ways in which that system interacts with one's identity. While "lived experience" can be personal and reasonably unreflective, standpoint epistemology is a position of knowing "earned" through intentional analysis.
"Silence is the artist's ultimate other-worldly gesture; by silence, he frees himself from servile bondage to the world, which appears as patron, client, consumer, antagonist, arbiter, and distorter of his work." The Aesthetic of Silence, Susan Sontag.
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
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The concept of subjectivity is derived from the philosophy
of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,
and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-
ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles
that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt
experience and creative agency of individuals... See more
of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,
and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-
ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles
that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt
experience and creative agency of individuals... See more
Just a moment...
More than a penchant for suffering, and more than a need to challenge ourselves, humans are a species that can adapt. In times of flux and epochal change, there’s often a peculiar strain of natural law among nervous, conservative minds — the “natural” way of man is right, so don’t meddle with it. This strain was there when we developed... See more