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Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

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  • In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a search for ethico-political subjectivities in the midst of deterministic and coercive discourses. In Article 1, I examine recent theories that have been formulated in response to postcolonialism. In rejecting identity as a matrix of resistance, I take pause to account for the specific burden of race and racialization in the west. I conclude by demonstrating that disavowal of determined identities may become a foundation to construct a counter-hegemonic global community. In Article 2, I attempt to theorize a solution for the high cost of ethico-political subjectivity by suggesting that classrooms may become sites where ethical self-articulation may be fruitfully practiced in a community. By closely looking at Lauren Cantet’s film The Class, I argue for the primacy of autonomy and intellectual freedom in enabling the emergence of ethico-political subjectivities.
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  • 2019-06-14 to 2021-07-15
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