What Is Needed in the Environment?

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Academics should learn about know and think about knowledge on the ways that they demonstrate. We should try to figure out the practical projects that knowledge acquisition can fit into, rather than having these debates for debate's sake. The people who're producing knowledge should be thinking about this kind of thing rather than deference politics. But what it comes down to is what gets used and what's usable.

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletter at thedigradio.com