The "demolition phase" in a new offensive of the American Counterrevolution: special thanks to @emcke.bsky.social for a rich and deeply engaged conversation about politics today on her podcast "In aller Ruhe" over at @szde.bsky.social. Listen here: www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/podc...

Can't stop feeling, perhaps fancifully, that it's also my day! After two decades of reading everything written by her and reading everything else, #Derrida, #Marx, #Coetzee, through her, getting marginalized and ridiculed (even in job interviews) for this passion, and yet believing in her work ...

Bengalis suddenly discovering Gayatri #Spivak after she is awarded a prestigious prize for her contribution to the humanities. However, the viral content these Bengali language posts are spewing up, says little about her work, and is all about how a Bengali poet of the 60s was in love with Spivak

A horde of carnivorous flies WITNESSING a 19th century missionary WITNESSING Satidaha (widow burning), With Jacques #Derrida's strange digression on certain fossilized insects!
My first take on what I'd later call #NonhumanWitnessing
#postcolonial
#posthuman
#satidaha #LataMani

1/n #Derrida rebuked #Spivak for her critique of his reading of Marx. Derrida called her gesture 'prioprietorial' (a spin on her own statement that perhaps she was 'proprietorial' when it came to Marx). This is a strange violence, when one accuses the other of not confessing enough.

In celebration of Gayatri Spivak’s Can the subaltern speak? jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/Spivak%..., @tcddublin.bsky.social’s renamed Eavan Boland library & their contributions to turning silence into words users.ugent.be/~scraps/docs...