If I could indulge in a flippant dismissal for a minute... The way that Guillory talks about canon formation makes me freakin' nuts. I'll agree with him for like half a sentence and then he veers off into assholedom again in the slipperiest of ways. I feel like at some point I need to:
- pick him apart, basically, fisk him
- write a short punchy essay explaining my vision, from completely different frame of reference
I need more feminist essays, and there's some -- Lillian Robinson always rocks - but... something is missing. I'm sure it's in some conference proceedings somewhere... But whatever I find is super specific. Jill Dolan, but it's about film and I disagree with her anyway.
so it's funny, I want to say this, and here is the right place to do it, and I wouldn't say it on my other blog b/c it's not coherent enough. and i have a horrible feeling that the place to look is like... aaaaa... Spivak. must i really? aaaaaaa. I was looking something up that she said about clitoridectomy as metonomy and I had a sudden feeling if i dove into her work, i would GET it better than i used to, because i'm a better reader of density, and also because i've been coming to some of the same places through third-hand absorbtions or reinventions.
But it would take me like 2 years to understand... What? I think something about marxism, value, and "literary value". like if I took my whole understanding about "value", turned it inside out, and slammed the idea of value in economics against it all. Um, blah blah....
My god. I just googled around and found a cool thing that is startlingly useful right away.
The Stanford Encyclopdia of Philosophy: Feminist History of Philosophy
ah yes. you'll probably want to check out Hypatia, as well. journal of feminist philosophy.
Posted by: e | January 31, 2006 at 08:18 PM
Spivak! Yes. She's completely insane but in a fun, "let's invite her to coffee and watch her get wound up" kind of way.
Posted by: Jo | February 01, 2006 at 07:13 AM
There was this one interview with her where she said "I like to talk a LOT." and then she described how she'd fuck with people's heads by, when she was all excited and wound up and interrupty and hyper, she'd claim that "in my culture, it's a sign of respect to interrupt someone" and then the other (non-indian) person would believe it hook line and sinker, and act all cross-culturally respectful. ahahahaa!
Posted by: badger | February 01, 2006 at 10:29 AM
In my culture, it *is* a sign of respect to interrupt someone. (Otherwise, clearly, you are tuning out and uninvolved with the convo.) Of course, my culture is blue collar Chicago.
Posted by: lori | February 01, 2006 at 11:59 AM
Debatus interruptus?
That could be almost as pleasurable as shitfacedus interruptus
Posted by: Chris | March 09, 2009 at 04:29 PM