Sunday 11 March 2018

GAYATRI DECONSTRUCTS

"Gayatri Spivak is an academic superstar" - reminds Kuntala Lahiri Dutt. Derrida's translator Spivak was back home from Columbia, where she teaches, and decided to lecture a bit. To a full house in attendance Spivak spoke on the impossibility and yet immediacy of the task of translation. Notice the deference she evokes among her followers.

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