Sublime

the willingness of liberal systems to accept self-criticism is, in fact, the feature of liberalism that critical methods like postmodern Theory exploit to undermine it. When done cynically, as with Theory, it can destroy people’s trust in the liberal system and obscure from them that it is this system that has made modernity possible.

L'intérêt d'Hélène pour l'économie avait beaucoup décru au fil des ans. De plus en plus, les théories qui tentaient d'expliquer les phénomènes économiques, de prévoir leurs évolutions, lui apparaissaient à peu près également inconsistantes, hasardeuses, elle était de plus en plus tentée de les assimiler à du charlatanisme pur et simple ; il était m

One problem with taking on a physical or mental disability as an identity is that it disincentivizes any possible mitigation of the disability. This might, for example, lead people to problematize or refuse technology that allows deaf people to hear, because they can no longer identify as deaf afterwards.

Ultimately, “research justice” amounts to judging scholarly productions not by their rigor or quality but by the identity of their producer and privileging those understood by postcolonial theory as marginalized as long as they are advocating knowledge production methods and conclusions that conform to those of postcolonial theory.