[Reader-list] Kashmir has become the whore of academia

[Ana Valdes]

Spivak, Roy, it seems only the women who had achieved some international presence has the power to provoke and upset.
I met Spivak several times and I am always happy surprised for her intellectual capacity of renovation and her views.
By the way some years ago she told me she spent several months each year in India teaching in à very humble  ways in à school for girls in the country, far fr.o.m. cities and commodities.
Ana

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8 nov 2010 kl. 10:13 skrev Aalok Aima <aalok.aima at yahoo.com>:

> comment made in a facebook group by shantiveer kaul:
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> " Kashmir has become the whore of academia - subject to merchandizing and ‘intellectual summation-characterization’ of essential reductionists/ fake modernists; Spivak spewing senors and senoras at a safe 'university-funded' distance – recording only the passing of a minor, or the making of a major academic event; who spout Deleuze and Guattari at the drop of a bonnet, deconstruct pointless death into a reading of martyrdom that can be packaged and sold at Oxford if not at Harrods and who co-opt our brightest young minds to become their articled clerks. We live in sad times."
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> ......... aalok aima
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