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Untenable History : A BIPOC critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s “Dawn of Everything.” (archive.ph)

submitted 2 years ago by sea_urchin@hexbear.net to c/history@hexbear.net

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Written from the perspective of a researcher; what they failed to consider, their biases, and the colonization of time into imperial time.

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[–] Michel_FouBro@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

okay but uh, have you considered that your values of clear writing and epistemological neutrality, are, in fact contingent and historical. if you were a better person, you'd realize that your assumptions are colonized and imperial, and that this is a very good and incisive article, actually.