Hortense Spillers: The Idea of Black Culture

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• BR

  @brokenrulerlabs · 3 years ago

  Enjoying discovering Hortense Spillers fresh air thinking.

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• JE

  @jeanettesdaughter · 3 years ago

  Lovely woman. So modest. Her little library. Hah. Her vast store of knowledge is what I see and hear. So gracious how she fields troubling questions and brilliant in refusing the easy reductive answers. It’s a critical culture thing just so you know. In one BlackDiaspora culture we say: “ I said what I said.” Thank you for a lovely wake up with my tea. Almost like a prayer.

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• JE

  @jeanettesdaughter · 2 years ago

  A worthy investigation. The more we know 💯

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• PH

  @philprof · 5 years ago

  My thoughts on the first guy&apos;s question (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PTHFCN4Gc&amp;t=2597">43:17</a>): I think one of the justifications for the term &quot;black culture&quot; (or &quot;critical culture&quot; as &quot;black culture&quot;) is that the drama of the usage immediately shows those who might think of themselves as supporting a &quot;human culture&quot; that they aren&apos;t necessarily (or entirely) for the thing they articulate. I think the &quot;black&quot; part is useful considering the narratives/histories that the West has built around words like &quot;human&quot;--that is, it is fair to say that the West usually associates &quot;human&quot; with whiteness (or non-blackness). By racializing the &quot;post human,&quot; I think Spillers is drawing attention to the &quot;libidinal&quot; qualities (to use a term from the Afro-pessimists) of words like &quot;human,&quot; which is already (quietly) racial. By getting rid of the &quot;black&quot; in culture or dissociate critical culture with black culture, she would be reinforcing the very language I think she is trying to problematize. Also, I think &quot;black culture&quot; (as Spillers&apos; uses it) reveals something about the problems (and contradictions with) liberalism (in America). But even the guy&apos;s question hints at the problem: For example, why would the term &quot;alienate&quot; people? The answer to that question is the thing the term is intended to probe/get at. In short, I think it&apos;s a way to indirectly deconstruct &quot;blackness&quot; and poke fun at the linguistic transmutability of whiteness.

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• AL

  @alfredmoraka9030 · 11 years ago

  Thank you so much for this video. &nbsp;It is just fantastic. Consciousness shifting. Love from Azania

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• BA

  @balenidumisani296 · 7 years ago

  Critical presentation

• EL

  @elel2608 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PTHFCN4Gc&amp;t=1380">23:00</a>

• IA

  @IAAMJAAH · 6 years ago

  Hero

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• CO

  @Codygakpo69 · 9 years ago

  when the man asks about postgenocidal but I think she said postHolocaust

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• MR

  @Mrbamis22 · 6 years ago

  Wow. A Lot Of White People In Attendance

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• JE

  @jeanettesdaughter · 3 years ago

  Loving this! Food for my head.

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• SM

  @smi8695 · 4 years ago (edited)

  What theorist does she mention at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PTHFCN4Gc&amp;t=2376">39:36</a>? The one that is critical of culture? Struggling to google the person&apos;s name or spell it correctly.

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