spivak festy
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.
Wow, this is the first time I wished I was still blogging in a long while. Looking forward to it.
Comment by danny — April 4, 2006 @ 12:22 am
Yeah, I was thinking that you’d be a good person to contribute, actually. I think Jon’s still taking volunteers over at Posthegemony. I’d like to see what you make of “Scattered Speculations”.
Comment by Az — April 4, 2006 @ 3:28 am
Yup, still taking volunteers…
Comment by Jon — April 4, 2006 @ 7:25 am
Wow, a ‘Spivak’ carnival - let us know how it goes!
Comment by Jazza — April 4, 2006 @ 12:03 pm