Spivak declined integration into group consensus at the symposium

Evidence

All this may be merely a preamble to admitting that at the actual symposium I sensed, and in sensing cultivated, a certain marginality. Our intelligent and conscientious moderator seemed constantly to summarize me out of the group. After hearing us make our preliminary statements, he said that we were all interested in culture as process rather than object of study. No, I would not privilege process. After the next batch of short speeches, he said that it was evident that we wanted to formulate a coherent notion of explanation and culture that would accommodate all of us. No, I would not find unity in diversity; sometimes confrontation rather than integration seems preferable. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 286

Categorization

• XREF: Instance of the reader’s question about whether strategic identity is available collectively — Spivak here refuses the group’s unity moves, suggesting strategic non-identity must be held by the individual against the collective.