Spivak

This is one of the philosophers that we have brought up within our philosophical science class. In my curiosity about her and thoughts about post-colonial theory and the context of subaltern...here is a lecture I found that she did. It's one hour long and then half an hour discussion with the audience. I find her talk especially captivating the last 20 mins (40th minute and onwards) when she starts to talk about the new subaltern as a transformation into property. Among other things, she notice the indigenous knowledge that turns into intellectual property, and the conversation of indigenous knowledge into data. She says that it is a difference between knowing and learning, between describing a card game and describing a card game well enough to lose in order to teach.

More quaokes from following lecture is;

"the de-trivialism of the humanities"

"logic does not belong to Europe alone"

"who will educate the educated"

"let us not accuse, let us not excuse"

"we must nurture the abstract read, transcendent it into reason by recognise that"

But let's listen to her....

For a shorter clip where Spivak comments the world of today, see this interview where she are asked upon the green movement in Iran.