
Talking Secret Body | Dr Jeffrey Kripal
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What's the Problem With Comparative Epistemology?
I agree with a sort of baseline epistemology that is not in alignment with how at least public humanities discourse happens. So comparison has a tendency to get kind of cock blocked by a lot of this pomo postcolonial materialist notions of appropriation and so on which are things that have historically happened. And you get the likes of Eduardo Rivera's DiCastro pointing out that by blocking it off by saying, nope, can't go there, it actually has the opposite effect because what it does is encodes the primacy of Western materialist universalism. It makes every non-Western ontology relativized and small like the museum objects. So they don't get a full
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