I really appreciate the content -- helped clarify a few things after my first read through. It is a very helpful to have someone else who actually read and has engaged with the ideas of Bhabha, as some of my classmates dismissed this without even reading it.
This is a really helpful video. I've read and engaged with this work myself, and I am convinced that while Bhabha has some good ideas, they were badly packaged; and when we get at what Bhabha's ideas are, they are a lot 'simpler' (not in a bad way) than the book has us think. I chalk it up to Bhabha just being a bad writer who read too much theory that it affected how he wrote. Really the idea comes down to a riff on Foucault's microphysics of power: in most any situation, it isn't that one person has all the power and everyone else is subordinate. Generally, everyone has SOME power in the situation, even if the power is to affect how the more powerful person uses their power. Same with cultures who are going through colonization. The colonized do at some point effect the colonizers, especially in that their adoption of the colonizer's culture HAS TO infuse some of the colonized's culture into it. (When I force someone to cook my type of food after being steeped in a very different kind of food, it is virtually inevitable that when I make that foreign recipe, some of my style seeps its way in, and maybe it seeps its way into how everyone in my circle makes that dish.) That does appear to be the outline of Bhabha's idea of hybridity, but that idea is clear enough that I am not sure he had to engage in as much theory-talk as he did to make it happen. To my mind, a writer who wrote what turns out to be a very similar book (in theme) is Albert Murray, whose Omni-Americans talks about this type of hybridity related to the American black/white binary.
I should also note that while some fault Bhabha's idea for not really adding very much to post-colonial studies - or at worst, making light of colonization! - I look at Bhabha as extending the important postmodern project of dropping a bomb on the idea of cultural purity. And that IS an important job!
Excellent work! I had a hard time reading the book. Honestly, an extremely difficult read. Can you point me to the most interesting, must-read pages in Commitment to Theory?
Clear and precise presentation of the primary concepts of Bhabha, I found this useful as I am using his idea of third space in my work. I hope you would have talked a little bit about your understanding of third space. Thank you.
A wonderful video with clear explanation so as the make the content easy and comprehensible. Can you open up a bit on what do you mean by discursive performativity?
Wrote my thesis proposal about creating a negotiating space for interculturality through 'resistance' before reading Bhabha, and so happy that he gave me the language to write further. Kudos for doing a concise review of the intro and first chapter of LOC.
I live in india permanently. Im not returning to america. My wife is a malayali. I love visiting tamil nadu- i performed at a school in TN just 2 weeks ago.
@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 what a great life! what do you perform? i plan to return to india once i'm done with my phd. possibly teach there too. we should talk sometime? i'd like to connect with Illini folks in india! never thought i'd find them on youtube!!! btw, i'm a new youtuber too...check out my videos (sorry, if this sounds spammy!) ua-cam.com/channels/jN63WasjSd78Ybn71HyKCg.html So lovely meeting you here :)
Great! I've subscribed to your channel. What subject are you doing your PhD in? I performed on the ukulele for a few hundred children at a school in a rural part of Tamil Nadu. Very hospitable place! had a great time there. Maybe sometime we can do a LiveStream dialogue on youtube. Hope youll consider it . Thx
*"In the theoretic development of hybridity, the key text is **_The Location of Culture_** (1994), by Homi Bhabha, wherein the liminality of hybridity is presented as a paradigm of colonial anxiety. The principal proposition is the hybridity of colonial identity, which, as a cultural form, made the colonial masters ambivalent, and, as such, altered the authority of power; as such, Bhabha‘s arguments are important to the conceptual discussion of hybridity. Hybridity demonstrates how cultures come to be represented by processes of iteration and translation through which their meanings are vicariously addressed to -through-an Other."* I tried to digest and take apart these sentences to understand the premise here but I'm still really confused, especially by *by processes of iteration and translation*, in what sense? The course slides we're provided are literally a brief copy from Wikipedia so there's no further elaboration whatsoever. I watched your video which cleared some things but the main idea is still very vague to me
I really appreciate the content -- helped clarify a few things after my first read through. It is a very helpful to have someone else who actually read and has engaged with the ideas of Bhabha, as some of my classmates dismissed this without even reading it.
Thx for watching.
Good video, thank you. Reading this book now and your video is helpful
Thank you for sharing your ideas and your interpretation of Bhabha's work. Most appreciated.
This is immensely helpful for my theory class. Thank you! Your efforts are appreciated!
Thanks
listening to every video on my way home from work this week, significantly improving my trips
Thanks for listening! Its great to get to think about this stuff!
Subscribed! Am taking up postcolonial theory for my thesis and you helped me understand Bhabha's argument/s in The Location of Culture so much more.
That was very informative. Thanks for being a big help!
Thx for watching
Excellent video sir. Really helped me unravel some of this chapter!
This is a really helpful video. I've read and engaged with this work myself, and I am convinced that while Bhabha has some good ideas, they were badly packaged; and when we get at what Bhabha's ideas are, they are a lot 'simpler' (not in a bad way) than the book has us think. I chalk it up to Bhabha just being a bad writer who read too much theory that it affected how he wrote.
Really the idea comes down to a riff on Foucault's microphysics of power: in most any situation, it isn't that one person has all the power and everyone else is subordinate. Generally, everyone has SOME power in the situation, even if the power is to affect how the more powerful person uses their power. Same with cultures who are going through colonization. The colonized do at some point effect the colonizers, especially in that their adoption of the colonizer's culture HAS TO infuse some of the colonized's culture into it. (When I force someone to cook my type of food after being steeped in a very different kind of food, it is virtually inevitable that when I make that foreign recipe, some of my style seeps its way in, and maybe it seeps its way into how everyone in my circle makes that dish.)
That does appear to be the outline of Bhabha's idea of hybridity, but that idea is clear enough that I am not sure he had to engage in as much theory-talk as he did to make it happen. To my mind, a writer who wrote what turns out to be a very similar book (in theme) is Albert Murray, whose Omni-Americans talks about this type of hybridity related to the American black/white binary.
I should also note that while some fault Bhabha's idea for not really adding very much to post-colonial studies - or at worst, making light of colonization! - I look at Bhabha as extending the important postmodern project of dropping a bomb on the idea of cultural purity. And that IS an important job!
Excellent work! I had a hard time reading the book. Honestly, an extremely difficult read. Can you point me to the most interesting, must-read pages in Commitment to Theory?
Clear and precise presentation of the primary concepts of Bhabha, I found this useful as I am using his idea of third space in my work. I hope you would have talked a little bit about your understanding of third space. Thank you.
Thanks for watching. I have about 5 other videos on Bhabha on UA-cam you may be interested in. I can do another video on Third Space in more depth
kindly find your video on third space
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Good morning
You video is amazing and useful thanks for you . But I have request do you have pdf file. About this subject?
A wonderful video with clear explanation so as the make the content easy and comprehensible. Can you open up a bit on what do you mean by discursive performativity?
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Wrote my thesis proposal about creating a negotiating space for interculturality through 'resistance' before reading Bhabha, and so happy that he gave me the language to write further. Kudos for doing a concise review of the intro and first chapter of LOC.
great thx for watching and best wishes on your research
Thanks for the Video Chad! glad you're back bro. please give us some inisghts into Hegel and Hegelianism.
Thanks man. Glad to be. I will be starting a series on the whole Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel this week. Should be a lot of fun
Great stuff 😀
Thanks. I'll have every chapter of the book posted as soon as I can
Wich are the main concepts of the author? Thank you.
do you have an e-mail people can use to contact you?
My fb link is on the channel page
Another illini!!!!!woooohooo
It seems you are from Chennai- i live on the border of kerala and tamil nadu. Even bigger coincidence than illinois
@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 wow! Indeed! What takes you there? I'm in freezing/rainy uiuc!
I live in india permanently. Im not returning to america. My wife is a malayali. I love visiting tamil nadu- i performed at a school in TN just 2 weeks ago.
@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 what a great life! what do you perform? i plan to return to india once i'm done with my phd. possibly teach there too. we should talk sometime? i'd like to connect with Illini folks in india! never thought i'd find them on youtube!!! btw, i'm a new youtuber too...check out my videos (sorry, if this sounds spammy!) ua-cam.com/channels/jN63WasjSd78Ybn71HyKCg.html
So lovely meeting you here :)
Great! I've subscribed to your channel. What subject are you doing your PhD in?
I performed on the ukulele for a few hundred children at a school in a rural part of Tamil Nadu. Very hospitable place! had a great time there.
Maybe sometime we can do a LiveStream dialogue on youtube. Hope youll consider it . Thx
THANK YOU
*"In the theoretic development of hybridity, the key text is **_The Location of Culture_** (1994), by Homi Bhabha, wherein the liminality of hybridity is presented as a paradigm of colonial anxiety. The principal proposition is the hybridity of colonial identity, which, as a cultural form, made the colonial masters ambivalent, and, as such, altered the authority of power; as such, Bhabha‘s arguments are important to the conceptual discussion of hybridity. Hybridity demonstrates how cultures come to be represented by processes of iteration and translation through which their meanings are vicariously addressed to -through-an Other."*
I tried to digest and take apart these sentences to understand the premise here but I'm still really confused, especially by *by processes of iteration and translation*, in what sense?
The course slides we're provided are literally a brief copy from Wikipedia so there's no further elaboration whatsoever. I watched your video which cleared some things but the main idea is still very vague to me
does hybridity make sense to all colonized countries?
If anyone deserves the "worst writer of the year" award it should be G.Spivak, not Homi Bhabba lol.
Thank you! I’m trying to learn this for my Cambridge interview, this helped so much