Is Deference Epistemology Undermining Organizational Representation?

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In an era of massive and systematic disorganization, there is like a vacuum in substative leader. And so without concrete social and political organization within which deeper forms of representation can be ted through social and political relationships, individuals get treated as automatically representative of abstract social groups. Soye: I think that deorganization of society makes the kind of aleak capture possible.

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