I love hooks' acknowledgement of conversation's "polyphonic variety," how conversations can go from the intimate to the profound in a blink. Thinking of this alongside Hall's own admission of preferring narrative to any other form of communication, can we locate other instances of this desire in Hall's work? Can we read Hall's texts as telling us a story? Is this the key to fully understanding his strategic use of theory/theoretical frameworks? How does this bear on how we could read Hall's written texts as different from his transcribed spoken texts?
hooks and Hall talk about how feminism had to enter "into a conversation that conceived itself as rupturing" in order to truly make a rupture. This is so interesting to me. It seems like Hall is acknowledging that there is a conjuncture "correct" for rupture. Is this different from how we've become accustomed in class to talking about conjuncture as merely a specific time period? Now it seems more complicated--it's not just that we have to say things with voice toward a specific period, but that we can only say these things once we can speak with it and to it.
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