ATS1873 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mein Kampf, Marxist Feminism, Liberal Feminism
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There is no meaningful reality apart from how we systemically represent it through language, images, design, gestures etc. These representative practices called discourses, produce and order what they ostensibly represent, and are therefore forms of power. All discourses are unstable and subject to critique and change, they are productive. There is no reality, only representations of it. Is (cid:272)o(cid:374)tradi(cid:272)tory, (cid:374)ot the truth, it"s a truth. Conservative to radical: realis(cid:373), does(cid:374)"t assu(cid:373)e history (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges, liberal, acknowledges anarchic world, but more optimistic, Post modernism as post-positivism cooperation solves anarchy: liberal feminism, constructivism, changes through changing state identities, marxism, marxist feminism, postmodernism, postmodernism feminism. National interest (cid:862)the per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed (cid:374)eeds a(cid:374)d desires of o(cid:374)e so(cid:448)ereig(cid:374) state i(cid:374) its relatio(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith other so(cid:448)ereig(cid:374) states(cid:863) Realists say highest national interest is national security achieved by power. Threats, capability and intention (cid:862)hostile i(cid:374)te(cid:374)t (cid:449)ithout the (cid:272)apa(cid:271)ility to do har(cid:373) is futile, whereas capability without hostile intent is of (cid:374)o (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)(cid:863) keith hi(cid:373)ko.