That was incredible

I can’t believe I just inter­viewed Homi Bhabha. I am com­pletely hyped and in awe.

We dis­cussed glob­al­isa­tion, truth and recon­cili­ation com­mis­sions and their rela­tion to nar­rat­ive (his next book is called ‘the right to nar­rate’), issues of trans­la­tion and cul­ture, border pro­tec­tion and its rela­tion to the cur­rent US tor­ture of Iraqi detain­ees, the dis­course of ‘secur­ity’ and ‘the right sort of migrant’, his role with the World Eco­nomic Forum as a cul­tural theorist…

And now, of course, The Age is saying they’re unsure of when it might run because it was all a bit rushed. They *have* to run it. 

Anyway, I also asked him if he minded me asking him some­thing for my own work, and he said go ahead, so I asked him about the Inter­net as an example of the inter­sti­tial spaces he talks about and he gave me such won­der­ful mater­ial. I will put some of it up here when I’ve tran­scribed it. How amaz­ing is it that I’m going to be able to put “Homi Bhabha, con­ver­sa­tion with author” in a ref­er­ence in my thesis?????