Dima4h ago
Baldur Bjarnason

“On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse”

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

> Read against the speech itself, Lorde's argument seems less concerned with whether antitrust law can break up monopolies and more with whose knowledge counts, who gets to define the problem, and what gets systematically erased when liberation movements reproduce the exclusions of the systems they are opposing.

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse

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Show threadDoug Webb5h ago
@baldur sad. Straw-manning is straw-manning whether ignorance or malice. We all need to do better. I hope Cory hears the critique well.
Show threadbituur esztreym5h ago

@baldur
oh yes! this article tells it bare and perfectly! thanks for sharing it!

"In that passage, Lorde is simultaneously "far smarter than I am about nearly everything" and also wrong about the thing that matters for the argument at hand. The invocation and the dismissal occur in the same breath.

This is, structurally, a version of what Lorde was diagnosing in 1979.

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But the structure (incorporate, cite, proceed) is recognizable."

thanks Tara @tarakiyee !