Bernard Harcourt’s critique-of-critique claims feminist and Black epistemology as its own lineage.

Evidence

Trouncing all these outmoded mediations by name (Hegel; Marx; Horkheimer and Adorno; critique), Harcourt advances praxis as anti-mediation: if critique has foundationally held immediacy to be a mistake, then praxis—especially praxis after critique—should affirm immediacy. This oppositional alternative appears not as Harcourt’s own genius invention but as the rightful consummation of Latourian history of science, feminism, analytic philosophy, and sociology, all of which importantly call into question the objectivity and generality that mediation effects. Dismiss not the immediacy program of everyone speaking for themself as grandiose white male melancholy, since deep traditions of feminist and Black epistemology and exploration underwrite it—as indeed Harcourt already attests in the paragraph following that with which we began, which cites Angela Davis, Fred Moten, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Sara Ahmed, and Chantal Mouffe. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Direct material for the reader’s ‘fight with her Antitheory chapter’: here the relevant target is Harcourt’s own anti-theory, and Kornbluh flags its appropriation of feminist/Black thinkers.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Kornbluh herself deploy the ‘white male melancholy’ dismissal line while resenting it? And is the feminist/Black lineage appropriation claim accurate or a strawman worth checking?