The rhetoric of difference may fail to articulate concrete social struggles

Evidence

What will concern us here for another moment is, on the one hand, the suitability of the general ideology or rhetoric of difference to articulate those concrete social struggles, and, on the other, the deeper implicit representation or ideological model of the social totality on which the logic of groups is based and which it perpetuates — a model which also involves, as has been suggested in an earlier chapter, a metaphorical exchange of energies with those other two characteristic postmodern systems (or representations!) which are the media and the market. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 737

Categorization

• QUESTION: This opens the question of whether identity-politics rhetoric of difference is suited to its own social struggles, worth chasing for the reader’s cognitive map of their own position.
• XREF: connects to: The rhetoric of non-interference renders dominated people’s grievances inaudible — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 607; Rhetorical talk of border crossing lacks force without concrete cross-group dialogue examples — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 232; Some suffering resists articulation when public dialogue is skewed — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1141 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The rhetoric of non-interference renders dominated people’s grievances inaudible — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 607; Rhetorical talk of border crossing lacks force without concrete cross-group dialogue examples — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 232; Some suffering resists articulation when public dialogue is skewed — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1141 (+3 more)