Re: <nettime> Jodi Dean: Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?

[Luke Smith <ninechars@gmail.com>]

* Taking Intersectionality Seriously
It's been observed that set intersection is a productive model for the
interaction of oppressions in society [TK cite originator]

** Opression

It's always structural.

** The Category of Oppression

# Objects are groups of People (sets) and arrows are structural oppressions
# It is a small category

*** Identity and Composition exposition

*** The co-category

*** Relationship with the Cat of persons and domination
**** What do we mean by structural?
***** Oppression is always structural
***** Functions in the Cat of persons and domination (? opression itself
vis a vis domination?) relate to arrows in the Cat of Oppression via a
functor
****** What is that functor? Not the identity functor exactly, but ...
(collective identity functor)
******* Faithful? Forgetful?

*** Oppression has a color (character)
**** Enriched Categories: for further study

** The Category of Exploitation
*** Objects are classes of people (Marxian sense, not mathematical) -- or
are they firms? or people? or commodities? or accumulations of capital?
*** Arrows are extractions of surplus value?
*** Full re-instription of Marx into category-theoretical terms would be an
extensive project
**** Engels speech at Marx's graveside

*** How could we model (reconcile) the relationship b/t Exploitation and
Oppression?
**** The reason that idpol appears bad to Marxists is
***** The Separation of these categories (apparent or real) characterizes
[neo]liberalism
***** Exploitation is hidden by "fetishes" (collective identity functor) --
Fetishes as forgetful functor? As Monads? Accumulation with loss of
structure is the key.
****** Mathematically speaking, how could we model a fetish in the Marxian
sense == how could we model a commodity in the marxian sense?
**** The reason that marxism appears bad to identitarians is
****** Domination isn't accounted for -- is hidden/elided in class
******* (Micro)aggressions impose real stresses (while relieving the
stressor)
******** In this sense it relates to the Cat of exploitation
******** Exploitation is a "hot" flow, while oppression is a "cold" flow????
********* Who is exploiting you for your labor time is a fixed, continuous
relationship (less so now); actual migroagressions are intermittent (but
always present in the mind)
********* Time is a critical element, and the Cat-theoretic concept of a
flow might be a topic for further research
******** Microaggression flow can be seen as waste explulsion (shit rolls
downhill)
****** The role of "primitive accumulation" is important, ongoing, and
somewhat neglected

** Naive sets, categorical oppression, and Russels paradox
*** The naive model puts people in sets by some characteristic they share,
but this model of sets is ultimately incoherent
*** Cat-theoretic approaches allow for a richer model
**** What would an intersection of categories instead of sets look like?
***** Presumably, a (bijective? faithful?) functor?
***** It seems, though, that identitarians are engaging in a
naive-set-theoretical conception sorting people by their characteritics
(Dolezal???)
****** Real meaning of "the exception proves the rule"
Rachel Dolezal

****** What if this is just an uncharitable assumption?
******* What would proper class intersectionality look like? A topic for
further research
******** Start by replacing sets in the Cat of Oppression with categories,
and make "oppression" a functor
********* How would Cat of Oppression and Cat of Exploitation then be
related?
********** If we were to functor-ize Cat of Exploitation, what would the
objects (Cats) be?
*********** They would be Classes (Marxian)
************ What is the internal structure of Marxian Class as Cat?
************* Objects:
************* Arrows:
******* Examining a person's history for category decision would tend
toward a model of experience (events + precedence)
*** What is the Russels Paradox analogue for naive intersectionality?

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:11 AM nettime's avid reader <nettime@kein.org>
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> LA REVIEW OF BOOKS, MAY 12, 2020
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