When identity is neither simple nor straight-forward - YouTube
- I think feeling other to oneself is the phenomenology for a thoroughly pluralistic metaphysics. The problem is that this dissolves identity. Issues of social justice presuppose identities such as "oppressor" and "oppressed," and indeed justice as conceived by many influential anti-colonialists, whom I hold in high regard, is impossible without clinging to historically sedimented senses of identity. Perhaps I wish to admit that justice is impossible, and all that is left is blind revenge.· in reply to Jennifer Armstrong
Yes, exactly. Or at least if I know what you mean, then "exactly". Deleuze and Guattari demand this pluralism, but then there is no scope for identity. As for the categories of oppressor and oppressed, most people are implicated in them to greater degrees (in both directions) than they think. I found a way out of the Western philosophical impasse by embracing Marechera's insights, which to some degree valorizes the perspectives of those who are dissociated due to oppression
Also, Marechera finds a model that is based on something other than blind revenge. It is very strange, but if you read his novella, BLACK SUNLIGHT, he starts of with blind revenge and ends up with shamanistic catharsis. It's very strange to experience this transition with him..
