overall points:
- 10: true objectivity is impossible, so the closest we can get to it is being really truly honest about the position from which we are seeing and describing, and trying to understand that position, and that way of seeing as deeply as possible, so to be as deeply honest about the observation as possible
- “an argument for situated and embodied knowledges and an argument against various forms of unlocatable, and so irresponsible, knowledge claims”
- 11: “the alternative to relativism is partial, locatable critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared conversations in epistemology”
- what’s relativism? a bad thing?
- relativism is a way of being nowhere while claiming to be everywhere equally
- in general this is saying multiple connected knowledges, with much self knowledge behind them – interconnected, web, solidarity, conversation. Not a lone individiual OR PERSPECTIVE – too much uniformity in white male scientific knowledge – hegemony.
- counter to conspiracy theories etc – no-one knows what to believe – need a strong web of truthful voices, that are honest about where the info is coming from
- 17: “We seek those ruled by partial sight and limited voice – not partiality for its own sake, but rather for the sake of the connections and unexpected openings SKs make possible. Situated knowledges are about communities not about isolated individuals”
- what’s relativism? a bad thing?
- 13: The western eye has fundamentally been a wandering eye, a traveling lens – violent, conquering. “Western feminists also inherit some skill in learning to participate in revisualising worlds turned upside down in earth-transforming challenges to the views of the masters”
- what does this mean? as in: now we want to revisualise worlds and turn things upside down, we can at least use the tools learnt from white men? is this not problematic? what about our own biases and privileges that we inherit with those skills
- 13: “the promise of objectivity: a scientific knower seems the subject position, not of identity, but of objectivity, that is, partial connection.”
- 14: “struggles over what will count as rational accounts of the world are struggles over how to see. The terms of vision: the science questions in colonialism, the science question in exterminism…”
- 15-16: limitations of the visual metaphor: “it seems to present to consciousness already processed and objectified fields; things seem already fixed and distanced”
- 17: science = “better accounts of the world”
- “science becomes the paradigmatic model, not of closure, but of that which is contestable and contested”
- “The science question in F is about O as positioned rationality. Its images are not the products of escape and transcendence of limits (the view from above) but the joining of partial views and halting voices into a collective subject position that promises a vision of the means of ongoing finite embodiment, of living within limits and contradictions – of views from somewhere”
- collective endeavour
- 19: “SKs require that the object of knowledge be pictured as an actor and agent, not as a screen or a ground or a resource”
- 22: Katie King: “apparatus of literary production” – “the emergence of literature at the intersection of art, business and technology… a matrix from which literature is born”
- the text in time. historicising.