> About a year ago I decided that I would no longer read books or articles
> written by straight white male university-based authors.
i resonate with this comment - primarily i know the dominant
discourse inside and out - and the discouse often is a mutual admiration
confab.
> Sometimes I wonder
> what would happen on xmca if, for one month, we all "chose" not to discuss
> their work, or to position our words within their specific arguments.
i've been reading a lot of ethnographers who are women / people of
color / etc. - and often it comes down to just time - if i continued to
read the dominant discourse little time was left for those already
marginalized.
> So often I just can't respond to messages because they are located within a
> web of discoursing where I just don't find myself any longer.
i can relate to this, too - though i still wonder - "what do
the natives think they're talking about and doing?"
> Now is this "resistance" or "reproduction" or "who gives a ****?"
i think it could be a particular demonstration of ethics -
> ps. I made an exception for "Mind as Action" - mea cupla mea culpa....
yes - same here - "Cultural psychology", etc. it's all
contradiction sometimes.
phillip
phillip white pwhite who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu
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A relation of surveillance, defined and regulated,
is inscribed at the heart of the practice of teaching, not
as an additional or adjacent part, but as a mechanism that
is inherent to it and which increases its efficiency.
Michel Foucault / Discipline & Punish
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