“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into their rational expectation straitjackets, not recognizing that, whatever the state of the social sciences in our… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings --… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share
“Politics of Friendship is, in other words, only a book between covers. For the real text, you must enter the classroom, put yourself to school, as a preview of the formation of collectivities. A single “teacher's” “students,” flung out into the world and time, is, incidentally, a real-world example of the precarious continuity of a Marxism “to come,” aligned with… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share
“Love is just a four letter word! (laughter) Because that’s what it is for me! I don’t know what it means... I mean, love… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
“Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
