Rearranging Desires: A Conversation with Gayatri Spivak

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with literary theory, philosophy, and subaltern studies scholar Professor Gayatri Spivak, who is University Professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, the 2012 recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, and the author of numerous field shaping books and articles, including A Critique of Postcolonial Reason Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard UP, 1999), Readings (2014) and texts of critical essays including Outside in the Teaching Machine (Routledge, 2008), and An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Harvard UP, 2013).  In this episode, Professor Spivak speaks about concepts such as affirmative sabotage, as well as the pedagogical, affective and epistemological labor of rearranging desires, as well as her rigorous work on W.E.B. Du Bois's legacy, scholarship, and archive. Music: "Evil Does not Exist v. 2" by Eiko Ishibashi