Towards the end of the dialogue Hall points out how at the time "there are so many conversation books being done now that for [him] there is a kind of sadness because they have been done...as a commodity gesture" (119). I don't conversation books are much of a trend anymore at least not from what I can tell, but I am curious if there is something that has taken the place of conversation books? Not just in a sense of commodity, but also any a sense of trying to create or facilitate a space for accessible conversation like the one between hooks and Hall. I say podcasts! and short form educational videos on TikTok and YouTube!
I'm not quite sure if there is a question in this but I like how the conversation referenced the moment feminist thought and culture studies came together or "ruptured" as they say in the text. What I like about this story, in the conversation and in the chapter we read earlier in the semester, is how dynamic the intervention of feminist thought is. It happened because people were passionate and talking to each other, not talking to imagined audiences in their papers or proper audiences like at conference. So often we are told to think about our scholarly interventions in our writing, but, at least to me, that thought exercise often falls flat and I haven't yet found a remedy. The flatness leads me to feel like my interventions are unimportant or weak, but I wonder how different my mind set would be if scholarship was conversational or dialogic dominant? How would that reframe urgency in my scholarship?
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