this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
49 points (100.0% liked)
chat
8556 readers
136 users here now
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
They are closely related but in that it's more concerned with epistemology, it's interesting as complementary concept - asking what the oppressed can know and learn of a system of domination that the oppressor can't, as a result of intersectional positions. Looking at class with it sort of circles around to questions of class consciousness and where the capacities for that come from, and also questions then how that knowledge can be foreclosed. which is useful I think.
I've moved on from his work a lot more now but it popped up a lot in Mark Fisher's final lectures where he was connecting it back to Lukacs' work and, at least those chapters, are pretty interesting.