“The pedagogy in Eve’s work is never to become a strong theorist who wants to wipe out the other’s knowledge or to adjudicate representations but to be a weak theorist who takes in the material she encounters and excavates as a teaching that induces further movement, the movement of making texture, writing, kibbitzing, the pincers movement of the person who has to learn and unlearn almost at the same time and does it in public. That was another thing she taught me–not to hoard my thought until I’d had it ten times. She told me to have my thought in real time, in public. It doesn’t become transformative of anything unless it circulates, she said, if you can bear it. She said in an interview once that she learned from Melanie Klein that humans cannot bear ambivalence, and although I disagree with that–because that’s the purpose of fantasy, to make ambivalence bearable–I knew what she meant, that it’s circulation that makes ambivalence bearable, because shared.”

— After Eve, in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick « … … . Supervalent Thought

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