bell hooks on plurality. (2000) ‘beyond specific historical contexts or shifting relations of power and inequalities’

Mentions

“the vision of a world where myriad and diverse cosmologies, epistemologies, and ontologies overlap, intersect, interweave, and entwine to form a glorious tapestry of entanglement — a reflection of our indelible interconnectedness and inter-relatedness”->
“official archival institutions can be seen as preoccupied with assimilating individual voices into unified, formalized, coherent, logical collective narratives, para-archives might be seen as concerned with acknowledging the heterogeneity and plurality of micro-perspectives, forms of alterity that might be incompatible with the mainstream, strategic, and regulatory.” ⤴️

Resources

Demystifying the ‘Pluriverse’ as the Hegemony Unravels
Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge edited by Bernd Reiter

eg ‘personality type’ tests significantly simplify and reduce human complexities under the assumptions of whoever made it (and whoever they excluded) (personalities cannot be neatly categorised)
you choose discipline and ethical conundrums to face alongside any one framing, or whose view you align with