Homi Bhabha: Writing Rights and Responsibilities

[SeedsofJoy]

I honestly don't think he really said anything overly difficult or incomprehensible in this talk.

[jemimallah]

its like watching someone take an hour and a half to blow their nose

[retrodrood]

BHABHA AND HIS FAG TALK AGAIN

[fayebabacar]

though written or spoken through elitist literature, I think that the message Bhabha is trying to convey is quite comprehensible for those who really want to COMPREHEND.

[bigman25plus25]

if you actually figure out what he's saying, it's very interesting.

[scholar1972]

@bigman25plus25 Get an education

[45acrobat]

Ditto to what all the smart people said...which is essentially the question, "what the hell is the ol' guy rambling about now?"

[aburashdan]

the people who are passing vile comments are simply reacting to the sheer size of the mental deluge gushing through the various cavities of their constipated souls clogged with greasy moss of dead habits, rusted in the hard wind of rapacious ignorance.

[2010desigirl]

"He has mastered the art of the vague that sounds profound" - wow that's a fine smirk!

[Numetalsucks]

Big Words. Small ideas.

[BruceBBaldwin100]

I was a student of Homi's at U Chicago (grad). While interesting, sometimes he seems to be more interesting than offering anything you can really understand. He is therefore a darling of other academics, which is of no surprise. He has mastered the art of the vague that sounds profound. I will say that I like him, though.

[sensibilita88]

Emeritus professor of English at Stanford University, Marjorie Perloff, said that her reaction to Bhabha's appointment at Harvard was one of "dismay," telling the New York Times "He doesn't have anything to say." While Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University, commented on the meaning of Bhabha's writing: "One could finally argue that there is no meaning there, beyond the neologisms and Latinate buzzwords. Most of the time I don't know what he's talking about."

[dylantisdell]

pretentious self-infatuated tosspot.

[k1138tx]

the responses for this video make me want to cry... have you never read a book!? really?!

[gemcculloh]

Homi Bhabha is quite difficult, but his theories invite others to "think beyond the trerrains...that have been plowed by others." This remarkable author does not deserve ridicule from hostile readers who fail to understand him, but rather deserves considered, mindful, analysis and contextualized responses.

[sibionic]

Such an awful old name dropper too - 'accelerated speed' as Derrida says' etc etc.

[seahawk75]

The man is significant to the world of post-structural analysis especially in relation to global consumption. It's no good to look at the world in terms of material and ideological investments as the language used to define such things is deeply immersed in polemics. Just look at the discourse of denial and disaster that dominates and splits our sense of the environment. Bhabha simply provides us with a language that can locate such dichotomies and re-evalute them in terms of our current state.

[Xenophanes21]

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[et6yEhzxexzhrz]

Yall just dont like him cuz your all racist.

[Alessandro1985]

I can understand what he is saying at least as well as he can. The problem is that beneath the dressing of jargonese his points are no more than trite clichés and contemporary platitudes. I am a philosophy student (unlike Bhabha) and have to deal with Kant and Hegel. They're difficult to read because the difficulty of their thought. Bhahba's thought is easy. He's difficult to read because he dresses his thought up in meaningless jargon in order to seem cleverer than he is.

[ashburnhouse]

I agree."On Commitment to Theory" has just wasted 3 hours of my life. Now I get to listen to a 3 hour lecture on the greasy little pill.

[kruger97]

@Alessandro1985 I agree. I actually laughed at when he started his presentation by saying that his extract from Foucault creates a feeling of ambivalence in him - as that's pretty much the only thing he has to say about anything.

[Alessandro1985]

Homi Bhabha is symptomatic of the third-rate, jargon-ridden pseudo-philosophy being sold off in the comparative-literature departments. This is junk-food for the mind, there's a reason it's not read in the actual philosophy departments (just by English profs pretending to be philosophers). Your argument that he'll be remembered by posterity is vacuous. Britney Spears will also have a posthumous reception.

[Xenosophia]

I'm afraid the reason you see Bhabha in the terms you have described is simply that your traditional training in philosophy and your strong investment in it being important and true forces your mind to see and interpret the world in a strictly polarized fashion, which is in fact precisely what Bhabha is fighting against. So no wonder to you he deserves all the adjectives you have listed. Philosophy is indeed a very dangerous tradition.

[jacksonhansonjackson]

A brilliant con man. Quite possibly the greatest intellectual scam artist in the academy today. Behind that wall of pretentious nonsense, I can hear the laughter of a stunningly intelligent joker as he cashes his pay cheque at the bank.

[kruger97]

@jacksonhansonjackson Here, here!

[Alessandro1985]

The strange thing is how anybody in the audience manages to keep themselves from laughing. All the American students are, no doubt, sitting there, with an attentive expression on their faces, as if they were listening to an intelligent speech. In reality, Bhabha strings together random combinations of pseudo-academic jargo and lingo, maybe occasionally rising to make a meaningful but unfortunately vacuous point.

[lottiesocks]

He sounds like a comedian doing an impression of a comedian doing an impression of an incomprehensible idiot. His fake English accent is hilarious. His brain has turned into post-modernist goo. And all that's left is an indian with an edwardian accent.

[scotty123123]

Homi Bhabha talks meaningless gibberish, and people buy it. He's like the Bernie Madoff of the academic world, entirely fraudulent.

[pseudonym1964]

GristleTit: Are you always this angry or were you born just plainly stupid?

[jy768]

Hubristic bilge pump of the indecipherable.

Pays good though.

[sisilisko76]

Thank you, Homi Bhabha! What a brilliant mind!

[marzish]

We can finally conclude that there is no "there", there.

[calmball]

@higher7000: u don't understand what he's saying...do u?

[inkonwater]

thank you. great channel.

[dialore]

thanks

[abiehakhawaja]

very educating and useful

[bloch08]

thanks!