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-====I. The Aff asks us to simply trust their identity. Such moves discount evidence and reduce epistemology to the value we are demanded to place in our sympathies with the authority of the person. When “performing evidence” substitutes for evidence, the appearance of legitimacy dooms the pursuit of knowledge and propagates decadence.==== |
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-Lewis Gordon 06—professor at philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at University of Connecticut Storrs—2006 (Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times, p 28-29) |
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-A striking feature (among many) of the contemporary intellectual climate, as I |
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-of past failures of certain social remedies take the form of perennial truths. |
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-====II. Afro-pessimism’s ontologization of language as the constitutive foundation of the world and Blackness is decadent. Afro-pessimists exclude the possibility of meanings and concepts outside of their disciplinary boundaries, in fact making the slave a permanent sign through disciplinary cosmologies.==== |
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-Lewis Gordon 14—professor of philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at the University of Connecticut—2014 (“Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge,” Africa Development 39.1: 81-92, 86-88). |
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-Failure to appreciate reality sometimes takes the form of recoiling from it. An inward |
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-. It serves as further proof of the pathological nature of such people. |
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-====III. Decadence allows the colonization of methods, thinking, and destroys the possibility of a decolonized ethics of the oppressed to overturn.==== |
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-Lewis Gordon 14—professor of philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at the University of Connecticut—2014 (“Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge,” Africa Development 39.1: 81-92, 88). |
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-The first is regarding the political significance of this critique. For politics to exist |
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-approaches, even in the name of liberation, face a similar fate. |