A Question of Identity
If there is one word that could sum up contemporary political conflicts, it would be the word: 'identity'. Yet we rarely hear anybody posing a question - what is identity?
If there is one word that could sum up contemporary political conflicts, it would be the word: 'identity'. Yet we rarely hear anybody posing a question - what is identity?
In this podcast we consider what it means to root the understanding of man as zoon politikon in pure negation, taking few cues from what is now widely called - and slurred - 'Liberalism' as opposed to 'collectivism'. We explain the congeniality of individualism and collectivism based on negation and the materialist reduction ranging from the one ending up in the "free individual opinion" to "ethnic groups" based on race; we argue that contemporary "identity politics" - from "woke racism" that is currently the order of the day to "white nationalism - stem from the same root of pure negativity.
In this iteration of Luminar Podcast, I join Deirdre to discuss the meme-based mass murder in Christchurch, Islam in media as opposed to Islam in reality, difference between genuine - albeit not automatically true - religion and its simulacrum, Wahhabism, the reality of ethnicity and other light subjects.
Richard Spencer, an acclaimed leader of the Alt Right movement, proposed not long ago a need for "political theology". Well, we'd like to correct him just a bit: he in fact proposed a need for political sorcery.