The essentializing moment that criticism attacks is itself irreducible.

Evidence

This would allow them to use the critical force of anti-humanism, in other words, even as they share its constitutive paradox: that the essentializing moment, the object of their criticism, is irreducible. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1762

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Names the irreducible paradox at the heart of the whole project — the sort of claim the reader sits with for days.
• XREF: connects to: Universalization is an irreducible moment in any discourse. — Elizabeth Grosz, Criticism, Feminism and the…, 120; Essentialism used strategically remains hostage to the irreducible essentializing moment it criticizes. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1762; Critics are implicated in the systems they condemn (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Critics are implicated in the systems they condemn #expands (0.95)
• Critical explanation cannot stand outside the structure it criticizes #expands (0.92) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 323
• Criticizing a system one is embedded in constitutes epistemic collusion #expands (0.90)