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 of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within… — 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
