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But now I see that writing that wants to fearlessly engage with complexity is always going to be open to misreading.Not only in the deep philosophical sense of not having overcome my own mind-body problem—the fact that I have this finite.

That is also something I wanted to bring out from these classic feminist texts that people often misread or just misremember or misconceive as being resolutely dour and pessimistic and boringly political.but also as totally lacking what my colleague Rachel Fraser here at Oxford has called the carnivalesque in feminism.On Not Sleeping with Your Students upends a cherished Ivy League defense of professor-student romances.

INTERVIEWERSo this was partly a rebellion against the institutional experience you were having?SRINIVASANIt was an expression.Unlike some people who are philosophers by profession and interested in social and political issues—especially the imperfect social and political realities with which we are faced—I have a vast amount of time for totally pointless things.

Do you worry about being misinterpreted?SRINIVASANAre we going to write in a way where we could not possibly be misread? That kind of writing is bad writing.

How much am I going to say on the record? I have nothing close to a reconciled relationship to my own embodiment.Although a deluge of rain hit Kenya in April.

the country has been mired in a drought for around four years.When you see wild elephants in the sanctuary theyre very calm and friendly.

has captured footage of the Samburu raising orphaned elephants.and a lone African lioness capturing a wildebeest outside the sanctuary.