d was curious what you think about the idea of shame being a learned behavior that perpetuates normative structures (benefitting the few) rather than structures that promote our well-being. I believe NOBODY naturally conforms to social conceptions of a ‘correct’ being in the world (especially those who benefit from our shame) but that mechanisms of failure/shame/success/reward are immediately accessible to the point where we lose ourselves in pursuit of an ideal. Fanon wrote a lot about the body-schemas of black people being buried under the imposed upon racial-historical schema. in this context, we would experience shame where our authentic being in the world doesn’t fit the ontology of the racial-historical schema. Now, since we SUPPOSEDLY live in a post-racial world, what does shame represent??? this also reminds me of Dr. L Bruce’s ‘HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND (bring back shame bc i yap sm about books i’ve yet to finish). here’s a line from that: the psy sciences “create and enforceable standard of what we are allowed to experience within the self without fear of persecution”
d was curious what you think about the idea of shame being a learned behavior that perpetuates normative structures (benefitting the few) rather than structures that promote our well-being. I believe NOBODY naturally conforms to social conceptions of a ‘correct’ being in the world (especially those who benefit from our shame) but that mechanisms of failure/shame/success/reward are immediately accessible to the point where we lose ourselves in pursuit of an ideal. Fanon wrote a lot about the body-schemas of black people being buried under the imposed upon racial-historical schema. in this context, we would experience shame where our authentic being in the world doesn’t fit the ontology of the racial-historical schema. Now, since we SUPPOSEDLY live in a post-racial world, what does shame represent??? this also reminds me of Dr. L Bruce’s ‘HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND (bring back shame bc i yap sm about books i’ve yet to finish). here’s a line from that: the psy sciences “create and enforceable standard of what we are allowed to experience within the self without fear of persecution”