I hate standpoint theory so much it’s the biggest blight in talking to people to people on anything.

You can be educated on something but then they go 'erm but I come from this background "

I hate it so much it’s so anti intellectual

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    They are closely related but in that it’s more concerned with epistemology, it’s interesting as complementary concept - asking what the oppressed can know and learn of a system of domination that the oppressor can’t, as a result of intersectional positions. Looking at class with it sort of circles around to questions of class consciousness and where the capacities for that come from, and also questions then how that knowledge can be foreclosed. which is useful I think.

    I’ve moved on from his work a lot more now but it popped up a lot in Mark Fisher’s final lectures where he was connecting it back to Lukacs’ work and, at least those chapters, are pretty interesting.