Postmodernism vs Great Narratives (1984) #philosophy #postmodernism

A short clip of Gayatri Spivak from 1984 discussing post-structuralism as a skepticism regarding the grand récits (great narratives).

#philosophy #postmodernism #relativism

[dionysianapollomarx]

She is clearer in speech than in writing. I wish I heard her speeches more than read her books back in college.

[aruji-sama]

everyone talking about her grammar no one understands what she is actually speaking about

[rackedbound]

So it is 100% horseshit . Thanks for confirming

[MalachiCove]

And here we are with the law of unintended consequences playing out.

[mark_tolver]

If meta-narratives are assumed, where is it stated that there is an end in view? This seems to be a pretty explicit statement for something that is inherently nebulous.

Postmodernism may a certain amount of validity but the more absolutist its adherents get the more contrary and paradoxical it becomes.

[cyberiadiscordia]

Her preface to Of Grammatology was superb and clear. Idk what the critics in the comments are talking about.

[meio]

When your parents don’t give you enough attention.

[DonBailey-odde]

It make sense that if you
define and end, other things are rejected.
The ends of this social justice, when it's equality
of equalness in all things and matters, human nature
Is left out.
So when its defined how
Social justice is to be
Achieved justice it's self is left out.
...

[matthewcaldwell]

Ok, but this precludes doing ANYTHING if it’s the only method you have. Ideologies and narratives are inherently specific, meaning inherently limiting.

[lordvenom]

Ohh she is still alive currently 81 year old.

[kallianpublico]

“…working within an understanding of what they cannot do.”
How would such a character view any narration? Certainly as something to undermine, never as something of value.
How would such a character write about his/her own intention: write their own narrative? Certainly not with a will to let it be understood by others. Their whole urge is destructive or negative: deconstructive. Literary nihilism.
Any book written by such a character is merely a warehouse of deception. They cannot reveal their intentions, not because they do not know it, but because it would undermine their intentions. Their intentions to avoid They are the apostles of the Antichrist whose project is not forgiveness of sins, but absence of sin. They are all atheists. Atheists whose one, fundamental, truth is “this is not God, that is not God”. Therefore there is no God. No creator, no narrator. Only causation, without any first cause or final effect. No morality, no beauty, no truth.

[jaykay]

Philosophy on teenager level... like most of postmodernism. It's like saying something that ryhmes and then claiming its poetry

[davidap]

Narrative, the most overused word of the last 5 years.

[Karamazov]

I love her work where’s the full video

[Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

In the end, you'll get it in the end.

[shankargopal]

How I wish we still had the dislike option.

[rathankitar]

What was left out was "pronounciation" ☠️

[carvakasatyasrutah]

“The sleek iridescent cuttlefish,
Does not in its benthic gloom
Emit so darkly obscuring an ink
As Spivak in a drawing room.”
(Apologies to TS Eliot)

[charliebridges]

I find her account of post structuralism to be overly formulaic and transparent. The objective of poststructualism is to demonstrate the opacity of what is projected as transparent by showing how all human assertions of fact, rationality and truth take two things for granted: 1) Being is Being: 2) Language affects a direct relation between Thought and Being.

[zahid]

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