Epistemic Injustice in Political Discourses? ; ¿Injusticia epistémica en discursos políticos?

Through her silencing thesis, Langton has contributed to the study of epistemic injustice by highlighting a possible cause of such a phenomenon: She asserts that the pornographic representation of (straight) sexual relationships affects the felicity conditions of speech uttered by women, so this speech is not understood as an illocution by men. This fact arguably undermines women’s credibility, since their testimony is not even registered in men’s testimonial sensibility. However, this thesis entails problematic consequences from at least two standpoints. From a theoretical perspective, it enacts a circularity when it comes to the empirical individuation of the subordinative effects of pornography. I will point out that this problem arises from Langton’s substantive conception of power, i.e. from her notion of authority as an attribute which can be ascribed to preexisting subjects. From a political perspective, such conception of power allows Langton to performatively rank women as credible when testifying sexual violence, but it also leads her to silencing alternative political strategies, e.g. the ones proposed by Butler. Hence, I propose to consider this form of silencing as a specific kind of epistemic injustice, one that neutralises the performative value of political discourses. ; La posición que mantiene Langton sobre el silenciamiento contribuye al estudio de la injusticia epistémica al poner de relieve una posible causa de dicho fenómeno: en concreto, afirma que la representación pornográfica de las relaciones sexuales (heterosexuales) afecta a las condiciones de éxito de las proferencias realizadas por mujeres, de tal modo que estas proferencias no son interpretadas como un acto ilocutivo por parte de los hombres. Se puede pensar que este proceso socava la credibilidad de las mujeres ya que su testimonio no se registra en la sensibilidad testimonial de los hombres. Sin embargo, esta posición implica consecuencias problemáticas desde al menos dos puntos de vista. Por un lado, desde una perspectiva ...