{"id":68177,"date":"2024-05-18T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68177"},"modified":"2024-05-18T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:34:26","slug":"academic-psychosis-epistemological-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68177","title":{"rendered":"Academic Psychosis: \u2018Epistemological Violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Academic Psychosis: \u2018Epistemological Violence\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Of course,\u00a0a lot<\/em>, rather any one thing in particular, has gone off the rails within Western intelligentsia \u2014 which was once, a long time in the past now, the noble vanguard of the Renaissance and Enlightenment and the envy of the civilized world.<\/p>\n

So this isn\u2019t anything like a holistic autopsy of the institutionalized pursuit of knowledge, as that would fill volumes longer than the Bible.<\/p>\n

But \u201cepistemological violence,\u201d a concept I only recently became familiar with by name but have long seen as an implicitly understood north star of leftist academics, seems as good a place to start as any, as it strikes at the heart of the fundamental claim that the expression of disfavored truths is immoral or violent.<\/p>\n

In the storied decline of the West, the advent of \u201cepistemological violence\u201d as a concept \u2014 and all the self-loathing and censorship that it implies \u2014 is a significant plot point.<\/p>\n

Via\u00a0Social and Personality Psychology Compass<\/a>\u00a0(emphasis added):<\/p>\n

\u201cThe subject of violence is the researcher, the object is the Other, and the action is the interpretation of data that is presented as knowledge. Using a hypothetical example, the problem of interpretation in empirical research on the Other is discussed.\u00a0Epistemological violence refers to the interpretation of social-scientific data on the Other and is produced when empirical data are interpreted as showing the inferiority of or problematizes the Other<\/strong>, even when data allow for equally viable alternative interpretations. Interpretations of inferiority or problematizations are understood as actions that have a negative impact on the Other.\u00a0Because the interpretations of data emerge from an academic context and thus are presented as knowledge, they are defined as epistemologically violent actions<\/strong>.\u201d
\n–<\/em>\u00a0Thomas Teo, York University psychology professor<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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