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Queer Theory is Gender Marxism, Et Cetera

New Discourses

CHAPTER

The Politics of Knowledge in the Underclass

The postmoderns did this with language. The idea was that the power dynamics are actually tucked into the discourses, whether discourses or webs of meaning in the way that Jacques Derrida broke down in the poststructuralist tradition. Michel Foucault described them as kind of structures of power mediated through languages. And so what you have now is the very idea of knowledge has now become put into the dynamic of the same Marxism to generate equitable outcomes until they become spontaneous at which point you'll have educational justice.

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