Re-Active

I posted this article on invitation, to which Ray responded as follows. My response to the Latour article follows above, and Ray's response to an article by Vialshini Coopan is above that.

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Ray's initial response:

Hi Shashi,

This is great. And provocative. I like how you springboard from location and dislocation to its implications for criticism. And the tour, so to speak, of Anderson that leads to the very writing we read on the blog. I can't help but want to respond, especially since I'm invested in the same projects and the questions I want to ask you are the same questions I want to ask myself.

I'm especially interested in the gambit you make that invests our hopes to the project, if I may universalize it for a second, of critique. But what do we make of Bruno Latour's "Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?" and paragraph 3 of Hardt and Wiegman's seminar on "Alternative Political Imaginaries" (http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/seminar/sem0809.php)?

I think you have your finger on the pulse of very contemporary questions, which is why I'm curious at a hyper-academic register. :)

Ray