Great summary of WS theory Charles. And I love the title as well. Could you also perhaps comment on modern postcolonial theories/studies (like Spivak)? it seems they have moved away from Marxist material-based analysis (and a universal perspective about truth) and are engaging in the same kind of ontological relativism that characterizes "woke" culture and odeologies.
Thanks for your comment, Andrej. I have not read much of post-colonial theories, but my impression is the same as yours. They focus on culture and literature rather than political economy, and they are permeated with epistemological relativism. Would you want to share with us what you know about post-colonial studies?
I don't know any more about this stuff than you do. To be frank, I don' have a lot of patience for this relativist mumbo jumbo and need to deconstruct everything without a clear point or end goal in mind. I guess I am too much of a rationalist and positivist at heart. For me this stuff is very much in line with critical/post-structural/feminist theories, just adapted to exposing colonialism as the dominant narrative of power relations they want to deconstruct, instead of racism, capitalism, or patriarchy like the former tend to do.
Great summary of WS theory Charles. And I love the title as well. Could you also perhaps comment on modern postcolonial theories/studies (like Spivak)? it seems they have moved away from Marxist material-based analysis (and a universal perspective about truth) and are engaging in the same kind of ontological relativism that characterizes "woke" culture and odeologies.
Thanks for your comment, Andrej. I have not read much of post-colonial theories, but my impression is the same as yours. They focus on culture and literature rather than political economy, and they are permeated with epistemological relativism. Would you want to share with us what you know about post-colonial studies?
I don't know any more about this stuff than you do. To be frank, I don' have a lot of patience for this relativist mumbo jumbo and need to deconstruct everything without a clear point or end goal in mind. I guess I am too much of a rationalist and positivist at heart. For me this stuff is very much in line with critical/post-structural/feminist theories, just adapted to exposing colonialism as the dominant narrative of power relations they want to deconstruct, instead of racism, capitalism, or patriarchy like the former tend to do.
I am in agreement. Much of it seems to evade political-economic analyses of the sources of global inequalities.