Why the fuck are there leftists out there who recommend this bloated CIA adjacent fuck?

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Ah yes, I forgot that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who describes herself as a “practical Marxist-feminist-deconstructionist”

    Ok well I never called her a CIA asset, I'm calling the French clique post-1968 CIA assets or CIA adjacent, which they were, am I using the word "adjacent" wrong, I'm not saying the mf was conscious of the platforming he was given

    at least two decades after he achieved fame in the Anglosphere

    Give me a break the earliest example of "fame" among anglos you can ascribe him is the Searle–Derrida debate 1972, and to be honest he didn't come out lookin too good on that occasion

    Don't try and tell me he was famous in anglo-land in 1964 when he was a random philosophy professor in the University of Paris

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Bruv this is straight from his Wikipedia page:

      With "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences", his contribution to a 1966 colloquium on structuralism at Johns Hopkins University, his work began to gain international prominence.

      After this conference he gave many lectures of various American universities like NYU and Berkley. By 1975 the dude was a professor at Yale from Christ's sake! This is all before the University of Chicago Press had published literally any work by him. I will say I did the math wrong though lol, should be one decade not two.