Post #2172801
2023-03-29 17:16 UTC
I also propose a zoomed-out ontology of potential characteristics, which we can further organise into virtues and vices, comprising:
1⃣ Metaphysical commitment, the need to highlight what parts of theory are not under investigation, but are assumed, asserted, or essential.
2⃣ Discursive survival, the ability to be understood by interested non-bad actors, to withstand scrutiny within the intended (sub)field(s), and to negotiate the dialectical landscape thereof. 5/
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@olivia@scholar.social 2023-03-29 17:16
3⃣ Empirical interface, the potential to explicate the relationship between theory and observation, i.e., how observations relate to, and affect, theory and vice versa. 4⃣ Minimizing harm, the reckoning with how theory is forged in a fire of historical, if not ongoing, abuses — from past crimes against humanity, to current exploitation, turbocharged or hyped by machine learning, to historical and present internal academic marginalization. 6/