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Keep marchin’ marchin’: Newtonian physics is oppressive

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From Toni Airaksinen at the College Fix:

Feminist researcher invents ‘intersectional quantum physics’ to fight ‘oppression’ of Newton: ‘Binary and absolute differences’ are ‘exploitative’

A feminist academic affiliated with the University of Arizona has invented a new theory of “intersectional quantum physics,” and told the world about it in a journal published by Duke University Press.

Whitney Stark argues in support of “combining intersectionality and quantum physics” to better understand “marginalized people” and to create “safer spaces” for them, in the latest issue of The Minnesota Review. More.

Paper. (pay wall) The abstract reads

In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability.

Intersectionality is catching on; correct math, not so much. A Toronto neuroscientist observing the local March for Science wrote,

What I found particularly concerning was the March’s emphasis on intersectionality as a “core principle.” This theory is fuelled by anti-science sentiments, such as the belief that we should prioritize subjective feelings over objective fact. These ideas have no place in the discourse on legitimate science.

Yes, Stark’s stuff does sound out of place even at a pussyhats for science rally. So it’s significant if no pushback occurs from such groups.

Perhaps no pushback is even possible now.

See also: Objectivity is sexist.

Western math as a dehumanizing tool

Social justice warriors hit engineering

Marchin’, marchin’ for Science (Hint: the problems are back at your desk, not out in the streets)

and

Marchin’ Marchin’: Bill Whittle on Bill Nye and science

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ha ha ha ha ha ha seriously???tgpeeler
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Maybe we should rename fe-r-mions to femions, and bosons to blackons to appease the social scientists.bb
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