BBRG PRESENTS: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Situating Feminism

[DickNBass]

Thank You

[magandaling]

Is there a transcript to this somewhere? If so, I would love to have it!!! Thanks.

[dancinmad]

Haha that was a interesting, insightful and, i must say, really quite moving talk especially toward the end. I suppose just mentioning it degrades the level of discourse... Doesn't Spivak have a beautiful smile? It warms my heart.

[volumexxvii]

I am grateful that YouTube exists so that I can see / hear scholars such as Spivak, Butler, Haraway-and so many others -share their ideas. But looking at the comments below, one thinks: this is what happens when someone as erudite, critical, and articulate as Spivak appears here. Keyboard-happy, ignorant children with no attention span or education post comments that blaspheme intelligence, rigor, critical thinking, and human-rights scholarship.

To borrow a cliche: casting pearls to swine.

[646kimber]

You all who comment about her appearance and making vein comments of her being a stupid feminist are obviously pathetically uneducated individuals missing the larger point of aesthetic education for all to create equality among boys and girls men and women in society. In doing so the desire of women placing dignity in men must be rearranged. She is a respected theorist worldwide and you all would never know it b/c you lack the intellectual cognitive abilities to understand what she is saying.

[drgdrf]

@646kimber Are you a grad student of feminism?

[646kimber]

f No my major is human services but i have studied Spivak in other classes & honestly those who can appreciate what she stands for and understand her true intentions are and i quote from volumexxvii " NO ATTENTION OR EDUCATION POST COMMENTS THAT BLASPHEME INTELLIGENCE" clearly i am not the only one who thinks this ways and it is because i have a fellow student who is educated enough to watch someone speak and see beyond the most obvious things such as physical appearance or accent.

[neenaism]

The Ethics & Aesthetics of Politics of Location: sharing American life and 'that life'? While the Personal is very much Political and maybe vice-versa, why intensively talk about the project of schools in the backward rural village in East India in front of an audience 'situated' in the West? And the obvious result is not surprising- one audience-member expressing her desire to visit that place! What is this? -An 'engaged' academic tourism of the least of the Third World!

[hannibal345]

that would feel AMAZING!!!!!!!! and i mean AMAZINGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!

[hannibal345]

if she was only teethless

[hannibal345]

i'd prob hit that tho...just saying...

[hannibal345]

i heard she's a virgin...

[hannibal345]

does she have a lazy eye?

[hannibal345]

she is ugly as my ass hair

[boosportica]

oh my god !!!!!!1 its about mee!!!!!!!!

[easyroute]

I agree that Spivak is one of the most brilliant scholars living.

[atwarwithdust]

@DoubleGauss she says (@1:38:22) she's "better looking than socrates" - as if responding to your vulgar psycho-babbling dismissal of feminism.