Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri SpivakThe Accident is impossible because it is only beside a world of purposes that the word 'accident' has meaning -- the living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
Reading must always aim at a certain relationship unperceived by the writer, between what he commands and what he does not command of the schemata of the language that he uses.
The Subaltern is everything that has limited or no access to the cultural imperialism. It refers to those cut off from upward---and in a sense 'outward' mobility.
Subaltern is the men and women among the illiterate peasantry, the tribals, the lowest strata of the urban subproletariat who are at the margins of society.
The Subject is defined by its capacity to produce more than itself. This emphasis on potentiality re-introduces the non-teleological conception of time that a materialist position can entail.
The Unconscious is not composed of hidden ideas that 'exist' somewhere, waiting for the opportunity to become conscious.
The Unhistorical is the art of forgetting and of drawing a limited horizon round one's self.
The Will to power is the driving element in all life which manifest itself only against resistances. Therefore it seeks that which resist it.
Writing is a place where the absence of the weaver from the web is structurally necessary.
