Open AccessEurope? A Speech
Author(s) -
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
aletria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2317-2096
pISSN - 1679-3749
DOI - 10.17851/2317-2096.25.3.13-30
Subject(s) - complicity , culturalism , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , history , sociology , political science , law , politics , computer science , telecommunications
My talk has two main points. One is a longstanding desire for continentality by the extreme northwestern edge of our continent, the island of Eurasia. It is a tiny edge and Imperial Europe is even a tiny edge of that one. The other point is a desire for a self, a mastership of interpellation. To be the master of “Hey you,” which is what interpellation is. The one hailed thinks s/he is the right person. There is thus a complicity in interpellation, culturalism allows us to forget that.