tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post4995009358195611667..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: The First Exchange: On "Neo-Tribalism"Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-29236550311346335582007-12-12T22:33:00.000-08:002007-12-12T22:33:00.000-08:00Dale said: It remains as true as it ever has that ...Dale said: <I>It remains as true as it ever has that I disapprove of the forms of "identity politics," which would police sub(cult)ures into a more useful homogeneity, which would drive moralizing social conservatisms and proselytizing fundamentalisms to "sweep the world," as well as mobilizing aristocratic elitisms, including neoliberal, neoconservative, technocratic, and eugenic ones, and so on.</I><BR/><BR/>I thought of this post today when I came across a <A HREF="http://www.alcoff.com/content/afraidid.html" REL="nofollow">paper</A> online. I've long been confused with regard to what people actually mean when they talk about "identity politics" -- the main context I've seen that term used in, oddly enough, is in the context of being told that I'm "playing identity politics" when I speak out on behalf of the rights of autistic people to self-determine, etc. So I've sort of seen it as a bit of a pejorative term, I guess.<BR/><BR/>But...the paper I linked to above actually cleared up some of my confusion in that regard. Particularly this bit:<BR/><BR/><I>One can be an anti-essentialist about identity without forced into an anti-realism about identity, as I have already suggested. If we move away from Leibniz, there are concepts of identity that can handle internal heterogeneity in the way the identity is made manifest in various individuals, and that avoid presuming to capture the whole person in any given category or set of categories.</I><BR/><BR/>Don't know if this reference is actually all that relevant, but it did strike me as isomorphically similar to some of the recent technolib. discussions.Anne Corwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940566603711834053noreply@blogger.com