Blog carnivals have been taking off lately. There’s the Radical Women of Colour Carnival (well worth a read, by the way); the Carnivals of Bent Attraction; and so on.

At Long Sunday, however, they have a different style of blog carnival. It’s not so much an anthology of great blogposts, selected by judges, but a week-long free for all theory glut. Long Sunday also call their carnivals Symposiums, or maybe blogweaving. So far they’ve done the Carnival of Benjamin; the Carnival of Tronti; and now, fast approaching, is the Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, for which I’ve foolishly signed myself up to contribute. We’re going to be writing about a particularly dense and crunchy essay, “Scattered Speculations on the Queston of Value”. This is Spivak at her crack-troop Marxiest.