{"id":894,"date":"2022-02-13T23:40:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/?p=894"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:41:01","slug":"progressive-dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2022\/02\/progressive-dystopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Dystopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m most interested in Shange\u2019s thoughts on neoliberalism and carceral progressivism, I believe they can be complemented well by French marxist philosopher Guy Debord\u2019s concept of recuperation. Shange discusses how liberal logics inform the aims of progressivism to uphold democracy and justice (4). However, as we can see in the case of police brutality, it fails to actualize social justice, especially in the form of abolition, a path to true liberation from our settler colonial past and its consequences. The concept of recuperation highlights how progressivism falls short by putting a greater emphasis on the tendency of capitalism to \u201cspectacularize\u201d and commodify radical frameworks and the various manifestations of modern activism. Robeson\u2019s use of \u201cOur Lives Matter\u201d instead of \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d is in line with this recuperation as it cultivates a socially acceptable facade that doesn\u2019t necessarily evoke a genuine understanding of the movement although it was well intentioned. This is consistent\u00a0too with other institutions as well as corporations promoting &#8220;woke&#8221; or PC attitudes that are ultimately vapid. Apart from all of this, how can we make legitimate progress without an abolitionist approach?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m most interested in Shange\u2019s thoughts on neoliberalism and carceral progressivism, I believe they can be complemented well by French marxist philosopher Guy Debord\u2019s concept of recuperation. Shange discusses how liberal logics inform the aims of progressivism to uphold democracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2022\/02\/progressive-dystopia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}