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🛠Beyond identity, or how the constructivists convinced a duck to believe it was an ostrich

The philosophy of modernity, as a triumph of utilitarianism, has always sought to sort out not only society as an object of study, but every single individual, while creating both imaginary and real levers of control. For example, it is known that identity determines not only the behavioral models of the subject in the economy and culture, but also forms its “political”: from requests to strategies and actions.

In their work, Bruebecker and Cooper explored the history of approaches to identity and tried to identify some fundamental points, as well as manipulated general concepts, building all definitions of "identity" in a gradient "strong/weak" definition. Undoubtedly, this is one of the strongest works of its time and subject, and its result lifted the veil of one of the most important conclusions of the modern era: is identity so critical? Is it possible to build something around it? Obviously, culture and identity are things, although interconnected, but independent of each other. Can there be a culture without identity? Maybe. Can identity exist without culture? Absolutely cannot.

And if it so happened that without the identity of the bearer, culture cannot develop, it is not able to redefine old concepts, renew traditions; then without culture, identity is not a subject at all: social-personal dualism does not work on it, because it is not able to make informed decisions, respectively, societies built around identity (far-right states), where culture is interpreted by the state, where, figuratively speaking, identity is not spectral, but clearly phrenologically defined - these states and social systems are extremely turbulent, unstable by nature, and this is regardless of electoral cycles. Roughly speaking, a fisherman always sees and feels a fisherman from afar, and if you write “FISHER” in capital letters on someone else, he will not become one, and if you write “IL-2” on a fisherman, he will not take off. The myth will live as long as it will be “nurtured” so that the system of mutual recognition works, otherwise it will not work.

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🛠Beyond identity, or how the constructivists convinced a duck to believe it was an ostrich

The philosophy of modernity, as a triumph of utilitarianism, has always sought to sort out not only society as an object of study, but every single individual, while creating both imaginary and real levers of control. For example, it is known that identity determines not only the behavioral models of the subject in the economy and culture, but also forms its “political”: from requests to strategies and actions.

In their work, Bruebecker and Cooper explored the history of approaches to identity and tried to identify some fundamental points, as well as manipulated general concepts, building all definitions of "identity" in a gradient "strong/weak" definition. Undoubtedly, this is one of the strongest works of its time and subject, and its result lifted the veil of one of the most important conclusions of the modern era: is identity so critical? Is it possible to build something around it? Obviously, culture and identity are things, although interconnected, but independent of each other. Can there be a culture without identity? Maybe. Can identity exist without culture? Absolutely cannot.

And if it so happened that without the identity of the bearer, culture cannot develop, it is not able to redefine old concepts, renew traditions; then without culture, identity is not a subject at all: social-personal dualism does not work on it, because it is not able to make informed decisions, respectively, societies built around identity (far-right states), where culture is interpreted by the state, where, figuratively speaking, identity is not spectral, but clearly phrenologically defined - these states and social systems are extremely turbulent, unstable by nature, and this is regardless of electoral cycles. Roughly speaking, a fisherman always sees and feels a fisherman from afar, and if you write “FISHER” in capital letters on someone else, he will not become one, and if you write “IL-2” on a fisherman, he will not take off. The myth will live as long as it will be “nurtured” so that the system of mutual recognition works, otherwise it will not work.

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