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Where is this bastion of critical theory which I would like to visit? I've spent years in academia, admittedly in STEM but I saw little actual explicit critica
by calf 3y ago
Where is this bastion of critical theory which I would like to visit?
I've spent years in academia, admittedly in STEM but I saw little actual explicit critical theory. I was all alone discovering and reading post-Marxist texts, with no group to discuss it with.
- LudwigNagasena 3y agoYou had no cultural studies departments? No people who do cultural analysis in the literature department? No one in the sociology department who works in the tradition of the conflict theory? No one in the geography department who does critical geography? No one in the anthropological departments who does critical anthropology? In the US? In the 21st century? Weird. Which university is that?
- civilized 3y agoYeah, I think a lot of us looking at this must be wondering how we can be part of this university. Even famously conservative universities like U. Chicago have plenty of this stuff going on.
- sangnoir 3y agoGee, I wonder why.
- sangnoir 3y agoCould it be that the CRT is not inherently anti- (or even non-) conservative? Perhaps the term has been hijacked by conservative culture-warriors as a wedge issue for identity politics in a way that conservative academics disagree wirh? I'm just asking questions here.
- calf 3y agoI'm sure we did but basically you're showing there is no critical theory bastion, they are a diffuse minority compared to most actual departments. And that tracks with my personal campus experiences, as well as the historical account of critical theory itself.