Life in the Pluriverse: Towards a Realistic Pluralism

To summarize: The realist says that we can know the world beyond our perceptions, and that truth consists of thinking and saying things that correspond with the state of that world. The idealist says that our perceptions are the only things we truly know, and therefore that truth cannot be a correspondence. That’s the traditional debate between rea

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If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of va... See more

To be a “realist of a larger reality” is not just to dream of something different than what is, nor to be lost in the spectacle or the world of representations. Instead, it’s to see the scene presented to you as well as what created the scene, to see not just the Instagram picture but the camera by which it was taken, the person holding the camera,... See more

Postmodern Theory and liberalism do not merely exist in tension: they are almost directly at odds with one another. Liberalism sees knowledge as something we can learn about reality, more or less objectively; Theory sees knowledges as completely created by humans—stories we tell ourselves, largely in the unwitting service of maintaining our own soc

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