Politics of Deconstruction: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera in conversation

On the Politics of Deconstruction. UK launch of the 40th anniversary re-translation of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology.
A conversation between Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, talking about questions of education, deconstruction and postcolonialism to launch the 40th anniversary re-translation of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology.
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[@tillbrainman6049]

best video and speech by prof. Spivak i have ever seen. at times her facial expressions even resemble Jacques Derrida. having read her english translation of "of grammatology" and joining her journey in trying to articulate the indescribable, this video speaks to a hard fought knowledge i have gained in unraveling the conventional structures of experience or real life. reality. i will never be the same. love it.

[@jb8839]

Very useful and informative. Prof Spivak's experience and understanding are a sight to behold. Thank you.

[@utsabiswas5893]

Fascinating speech. Truly extraordinary.

[@SEXANDTHECITYCLIPS]

Thank you for so much as fact-dropping the "𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓬𝔂" of language over the self, ma'am Spivak. 🙏.

[@SEXANDTHECITYCLIPS]

🙏

[@rajasingadurai]

A wonderful, brilliant, energetic interactive session ....

[@architectonic99]

Brilliant, insightful, necessarily elliptical but rewarding.

[@gordanaginamihajlovska6125]

The commentary is very insightful. It tells us how little capacity there us in the West for intellectual thinking and how easy it is just to drink a deadly can of coke

[@prasadkrupakarr.angadi8574]

Excellent speech we came to know plenty of ideas regarding Derrida Of gramatology and subaltern Studies

[@shivampathak3545]

Loved it when she said, and I quote "Saturday Morning". This is an allusion for audience that on a Saturday Morning they could afford to digest a little story along with her explanation of Derrida. I think it is much for the audience's delight and less for her's intellectual appetite.😊😊

[@dr.syednasrullabakhtiary6416]

The conversation reveals far deeper truths and realities related to certain important topics like education, politics, the role of language, marxist's ideology and after all Derridean philosophy. It also sheds light on the role if various races, cultures, religions and civilizations. Suffice is to say that the dialogues create avenues for understanding many intellectual concepts in a deconstruction way.

[@ImpinderjeetKaur-nd4lb]

Thought provoking talk on deconstruction and Derrida.

[@azazshaikh9174]

Excellent 👍

[@azazshaikh9174]

Excellent

[@njeyaraj63]

Valuable topic

[@edwardwhittaker5728]

It is a bit rambling but still very good. In OG, the pages 69-73 in my view, are particularly brilliant, but they also reveal an immanent anti-anglophone 'tendency'. Was this the reason why all those 'Oxford and Cambridge' philosophers did not want Derrida to get his honorary Doctorate? OG is actually more relevant now than ever.

[@nilanjanaghosh3432]

Perhaps one, who is inspired by thinkers like Derrida,prefers to be rambling than (logically)sequential😃

[@edwardwhittaker5728]

@@nilanjanaghosh3432 That is a very good point. To an extent maybe, Gayatri does ramble i.e. to make intuitive connections and diversions- it comes with her memory. Logical sequencing was not really appropriate to her memory, but it does come into the very structure of language via enunciation and syntax, precisely the logo-centrist structure that Derrida wanted to 'deconstruct'. Thanks for the reply, by the way.

[@AishwaryaPratimRabha]

solidarity with gayatri spivak

[@thepostmodernman1355]

This comment section is shameful indeed. People have no respect for perhaps one of the best minds at work in the West at the moment. Instead look at these idiots bashing her for her background and origins, and overlooking her achievements.

[@MrCritiqueish]

most of their comments are addressed in the lecture. If only they had watched.

[@neelimagchaudhari5434]

👍

[@patriciatinajero410]

So sad that corruption captured the imagination and its possibilities, shall we think of corruption as a dialectic too?

[@rocantenrocanten4150]

зачем это... читайте дерриду

[@sacredsoma]

One way to drink Schwepps

[@user-gn7bh4zs8j]

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[@dr.surendraparmar2336]

Excellent discussion by Gayatri Spivak

[@Cyberphunkisms]

I want a session with sadhguru and spivak.

[@kakistocracyusa]

Let's put a fine point on it. Derrida was an absolute fad amongst the "cool" literary-analysis crowd in the 80's and 90's (particularly those trying to get laid). It provided free-license to speak elliptically around age-old philosophical questions as though they were something new, while saying nothing particularly original. There will always be a demand for this license.

[@Grappapappa]

Don't you have dogs in Kalkuta?!

[@brandgardner211]

agent of tavistock and MI6

[@user-uy3vu1pk9y]

Why postcolonialism is an empty word??!?

[@siddharthb2633]

Imagine crapping on Capitalism and being associated with Harvard and Columbia.

[@vvviiixxx8745]

is that all you took away from this? ahahaha.

[@kemwittalltree9650]

This nonsense is becoming passe so fast.

[@infinitewisdom6065]

What nonsense. I think you are a duffer and did not understand any of it. I would have been more sympathetic to your criticism if there was any substance to it.

[@shrutih3153]

Uncouth dimwit

[@brandgardner211]

rubbish

[@infinitewisdom6065]

You are sick writing idiotic comments three times.

[@Mai-Gninwod]

Lol the way she speaks is just aimless and strange and vague

[@siddharthb2633]

U must deconstruct it.

[@veerswami7175]

@@siddharthb2633 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@czarquetzal8344]

Spivak is not a stimulating speaker. She better focus on teaching in the graduate school and in writing scholarly research.

[@Altruismisreal27]

She is answering the questions brilliantly. It doesn’t sound like you should be listening to her. Why spend time on something that you can’t follow...

[@jipangoo]

Posturing