Edward Said Memorial Conference - Gayatri Spivak

Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "A Borderless World?" at the Edward Said Memorial Conference, Utrecht, 16 April 2013.
What is this lecture about?
"What institutions of tertiary education in varieties of the metropole now have to think about is that globalization has introduced a kind of accessible contemporaneity to us, and placed us within it, which has not taken away, but rendered obsolete, the established ways of knowing the historical. Modernity/tradition methodologies, colonial/postcolonial methodologies remain appropriate in their own place, but are no longer useful to understand this new situation, which seems to lend itself more easily to a quantified, statisticalized, and, in a less rigorous way, simply arithmeticalized approach, democracy computed as supervised safe elections, epistemic claims without reality checks, going hand in hand with a collection of "global" curiosities as evidence.
Let us rather ask ourselves how we must change in response to this challenge to knowing, not how we can add more information and money to the spectacular alternative streams at the edges of disciplines. How can the mainstream of disciplines be rearranged so that we and our students learn to think differently, rather than separate rigorous history and method from the glamour of easy globality. Such challenges have come in history from time to time and intellectual historians as well as students of the history of consciousness have told us after the fact how these changes happened. To that extent, we too must give ourselves over to what we call the future anterior, what will have happened in spite of our best efforts. But at the university, we must also make these efforts - once again, to change ourselves, rather than simply to acquire more substantive knowledge."
Edward Said Memorial Conference was organised by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University as one of the Treaty of Utrecht commemoration events on 15-17 April 2013. More information available at: cfhutrecht2013.com/.

[@davidschmezer5712]

wow... i don't understand a word

[@crismccomb9791]

"I am so irreligious that even atheism seems like a religion to me." (that's why i solicited her help; anyhow, she's something of a trickster figure. After near 50 years of teaching-- Draupadi has now "countered" the first world aesthete and Sammy & Rosie have gotten laid-- an alternative way, perhaps, to transgresses the Buildungsroman? We're left to ask, What's left, Dr. Chakravorty, now that you've all but single-handedly dismantled "the West as subject?" Attempting to 'read' a culturally different work, I tried to render a synopsis of Binodini as a critique of child bride marriage, paving the way (to reinforce Mahasweta Devi's statement of "Indo-[Tibetan] 'theosophy' as uber-naively "goddess obsessed." "Pedestal syndrome" aside, (which always already underscores so much sexual violence), if you 're busy again next New Year's, Dr. Spivak, an interview, maybe?

[@zahirarahman8104]

Permeability of the body , respecting the borders, borderlessness how poetic and philosophic.

[@zahirarahman8104]

Another part of her speech that is so enlightening is the statement she makes " the peace that they (the heads of States announce ) can only be sustained if their inhabitants are trained in the practice of peace "