Enjoying discovering Hortense Spillers fresh air thinking.

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.

My thoughts on the first guy's question (43:17): I think one of the justifications for the term "black culture" (or "critical culture" as "black culture") is that the drama of the usage immediately shows those who might think of themselves as supporting a "human culture" that they aren't necessarily (or entirely) for the thing they articulate. I think the "black" part is useful considering the narratives/histories that the West has built around words like "human"--that is, it is fair to say that the West usually associates "human" with whiteness (or non-blackness). By racializing the "post human," I think Spillers is drawing attention to the "libidinal" qualities (to use a term from the Afro-pessimists) of words like "human," which is already (quietly) racial. By getting rid of the "black" 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 "black culture" (as Spillers' uses it) reveals something about the problems (and contradictions with) liberalism (in America). But even the guy's question hints at the problem: For example, why would the term "alienate" people? The answer to that question is the thing the term is intended to probe/get at. In short, I think it's a way to indirectly deconstruct "blackness" and poke fun at the linguistic transmutability of whiteness.

A worthy investigation. The more we know 💯

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

Critical presentation

Hero

Wow. A Lot Of White People In Attendance

What theorist does she mention at 39:36? The one that is critical of culture? Struggling to google the person's name or spell it correctly.

Loving this! Food for my head.

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

They're all white!!!

You lost us at the audience.

If it is defined as a critical posture, why do you just not talk about critical posture and then apply it to the black population? Why do you need to add black culture? I don't get it.