http://drabinski.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/glissant-deleuze-rhizome-nomad/ spacing difference : different spaces Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:58:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://drabinski.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/glissant-deleuze-rhizome-nomad/#comment-241 Paulette Brown Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:58:50 +0000 http://drabinski.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/glissant-deleuze-rhizome-nomad/#comment-241 Glissant has said what I have been struggling with and thinking about for the longest time. As I prepare for comp exams in Hermeneutics and Methodology in New Testament Studies, I have been experiencing anxieties about the usefulness of Deleuze and Guiterrez who, in my view, have presented a serious challenge to the modernist way of thinking and constructing knowledge. Glissant's push beyond D&G's rhizomatic theoretical constructions is so helpful as I try to find a way of thinking that recognizes my African Caribbeanness yet subjects this itself to re-thinking. What it means to think/read from conditions of peripherality? What does it mean to think subjectivity in historical experience? How do we think in a way that does not fit neatly into 'modernity' or 'postmodernity' and who are our interlocutors? These are my big questions as I look ahead into reading the New Testament in ways that are different from the dominant social-scientific or historical critical ways. Is there a way of speaking with Glissant. Glissant has said what I have been struggling with and thinking about for the longest time. As I prepare for comp exams in Hermeneutics and Methodology in New Testament Studies, I have been experiencing anxieties about the usefulness of Deleuze and Guiterrez who, in my view, have presented a serious challenge to the modernist way of thinking and constructing knowledge. Glissant’s push beyond D&G’s rhizomatic theoretical constructions is so helpful as I try to find a way of thinking that recognizes my African Caribbeanness yet subjects this itself to re-thinking. What it means to think/read from conditions of peripherality? What does it mean to think subjectivity in historical experience? How do we think in a way that does not fit neatly into ‘modernity’ or ‘postmodernity’ and who are our interlocutors? These are my big questions as I look ahead into reading the New Testament in ways that are different from the dominant social-scientific or historical critical ways. Is there a way of speaking with Glissant.

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