Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
New Books in Communications
00:00
The Va: A Concept of Relational Space
The old system of a PhD with one name and ownership of that intellectual content is just becoming passe at the moment. I try to be very careful about not just stepping into the quagmire of cultural appropriation you know okay I'll come along as a westerner and just grab a concept out of samo and tangen thinking, he says. "I don't own these ideas but as I understand the concept of the va from colleagues" It's an idea of a kind of void an empty space you could say between two people or two concepts or a group of people But it's not empty it's a it's a relational space in which our thoughts are coming together and interacting in this
Transcript
Play full episode
