Francisco Fortuño Bernier & Aaron Jaffe on Feminism

Francisco Fortuño Bernier & Aaron Jaffe:

By declining to confront our anti-egalitarian social structure at its roots, an individualistic, corporate feminism will never transform society. It can only offer a select few the entirely insufficient hope of catching up; of taking their turn; of being represented. The patience of the oppressed is rapidly transformed into a strategy of their oppressor.

 

Bonus link: Fortunes of Feminism (“Instead of arriving at a broader, richer paradigm that could encompass both redistribution and recognition, we would have traded one truncated paradigm for another—a truncated economism for a truncated culturalism. The result would be a classic case of combined and uneven development: the remarkable recent feminist gains on the axis of recognition would coincide with stalled progress—if not outright losses—on the axis of distribution.”)

Vincent Emanuele – A Conversation with David Harvey

Link to an interview of David Harvey conducted by Vincent Emanuele:

“Rebel Cities, Urban Resistance and Capitalism: A Conversation with David Harvey”

Harvey is best in these sort of interview settings.  It is great that the conversation touches on questions of culture and symbols — though there is not much depth here beyond simply raising those issues.  It is worth noting that Pierre Bourdieu and others have offered substantial analytic tools to bolster theory in that area.