interventions

A symposium on the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has started at Long Sunday. I won’t be contributing to this one but I have fond memories of meeting Spivak at a conference in New York in 1999 where she and I chatted about my doctoral thesis on James Mill. Regardless though of my impressions of her personal intellectual generosity, I am broadly in agreement with Warren Montag regarding the transcendentalism of her thesis on how “the subaltern cannot speak”. Warren’s (short!) essay can be found at Cultural Logic.