Too Much Theory on the Left? feat. Catherine Liu
Emancipations Podcast
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The Role of Celebrity in the Humanities
I'm going to talk about this in a different way. I mean that ethnic studies came out of deconstruction. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that French theory was used politically for gender for broadly speaking, identitarian ends, struggles, etc. The interesting thing about it, Catherine, is that at the heart of it, it was actually a kind of post identity thing. It was not an affirmation of identity politics as we understand it in a vulgar sense. In reality, the core of French theory was trying to complicate identity,. But I know that you think a lot about that. So go ahead.
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