Comment by [deleted] on 20/06/2020 at 08:24 UTC

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View submission: Philosophical takes on cancel culture

This is such an important question -- and you've articulated it so well.

Short answer: I don't know, but wish I did.

My guess, as I imagine might be something of your general feeling already, is that there must be some political philosophy out there of a psychological bent, where especially communication and dialogue come into technical focus.

The only psychology I've read that I've found fruitful--that has touched on something new--is Lacan's mapping out of the 'Four Discourses'. However (as you might know), he's often an ill-regarded source and may damage your own research to mention him. For my own part, though, his take on the above at least worth reading. Oh, and there might even be some real connection to cancel culture; cf. this: https://youtu.be/6aqGYYBwKbQ

Otherwise, all I can suggest, sorry, is work on 'dialogic practice' in pedagogy. This fairly recent paper would be a good point of entry and means of orientation: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=dialogic+teaching+practice&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DKJ12cFVvtxkJ

Good luck!

P.s. would be very interested in your further thoughts and findings.

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Comment by TheZoneHereros at 20/06/2020 at 15:14 UTC

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Not relevant to the main thread, but would you mind elaborating a bit on why Lacan is potentially problematic? My therapist was mentioning his concept of the subject a while ago and I was intrigued, but I don’t know much of anything about him.