Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

#Blood #Doe #Dry
If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

#Thinking #Body
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

#Teacher #Warning #Literature
So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

#Hands #Order #Ideas
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

#Fall #Expression #Inspire

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
She who means no mischief does it all.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.
Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak famous quotes

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