There is no such thing as knowledge
*So sayeth Mike Hales https://social.coop/@mike_hales/107430510590782176
1. Because
Dunno
It's hard to pitch and sustain this kind of perspective, and I can't easily point to other places where it's up front in the same way. Culture is so saturated with idealist perceptions of 'knowledge' as 'a body' or as accumulatable 'stuff'.
A historical, materialist framing - centred on practices of people-in-culture - is difficult to arrive at in the face of such hegemonic stuff
2. Epistemic status
- Type
- claim
- Agreement level
- Concentrate and ask again
I'm not really sure what Mike meant by this, and Mike himself doesn't seem to have a clear description.. But it's interesting and provocative and I Trust Situated Knowing from Mike. I'd guess that Mike's gist is around knowledge being a relationship rather than an abstract thing.
3. Elsewhere
3.1. In my garden
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