we might begin (the answer to this question) by posing a counter to it. each "community" or "civilisation" or group listed below might be measured along a number of axes or coordinates.secondly, it is safe to say each community etc also contains both dominant ways of thinking and those in resistance. even if the resistance accepts the lines of major axes if only to resist, still all communities are riven. sometimes simply generational differences create riven lines; sometimes it is wealth; sometimes it is gender, and so on.
i wonder about the most basic coordinates, and have become impatient with the dominant lines of "intersectionality" that these days reduce to identity markers--race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
how are we moving and thinking vis a vis our environment, for instance. when we get up, what do we encounter around us; when we go out, what do we encounter; how do we respond to that material world that we both create and react to? might that matter more than race/class/gender/lgbtq/ etc?
i've always thought we were formed in relation to the other, but if the Other includes the material frame, we need to reconfigure the entirety of intersectionality. toyin's list is grounded in historical and economic frames; but those do little around the questions of materiality i'd want included.
and the answers i am seeking are as basic as space and time, what bakhtin tried to get at with chronotopes. but that seems only a start for literature.
ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2018 1:26:21 AM
To: usaafricadialogue
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Narrative Politics of Epistemes : Styles of Thought in Space and Time by Toyin Falola
"Pre capitalism, agrarian societies, consumer societies, capitalist, dictatorship, developed, underground, under developed, etc etc generate ways of thinking, semiotics, semi optics, etc etc
These ways of thinking can be located in time, contextualized, generalized, particularized, anatomized, aggregated, disaggregated, localized, globalized.
Who is doing what?
What matrix?
What is the narrative politics?
etc."
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