To think is political. It arises out of a shackles of anxieties, fears and hauntologies that one experiences while facing the changing of the present. It is courage of freedom. It takes courage to think political in freedom. Such courage to think the political in freedom has emancipative freedoms as its goal and not mere unity of all. This...
Hermeneutics of Love
We love our life and we are trying hard to preserve it against the novel coronavirus. Our life is no stranger to death but when it comes to pandemic death becomes omnipresent and we have to fight for life. This is why we try to police the virus and preserve our life. This preservation of life emerges from our...
Thinking the Disable
How are we thinking disability? Perhaps it is a good indicator of our care and concern. In fact, thinking disability can also manifest how we think power. Michel Foucault’s work opens our eyes to manner in which we think the normal and the abnormal or the disable and the healthy. Disability is mainly thought in relation to power/knowledge approaches...
Silencing Silence
Can silence show itself ? Can silence be telling like a telling smile. Silence is not an absence of noise. We can hear silence. To hear silence, we need awareness that will focus on silence. Within solitude , there is plenitude . Silence flows all around us. Silence does silence everything. We are drawn into a sense that nothing...
The Condition of Women in our Country
The condition of women in our country is complex and cannot be described with a singular monopolistic category. Although a woman is honoured as Goddess in our culture, the way we relate to them in practice may be aptly described as cultural fascism. Our society is not merely patriarchal, it is deeply patrifocal. This is why half of us...
Imperative to become an Anti-Oculus
Maybe we have to ask, ‘how does capitalism organize us so that it can recognize us?’ This question takes us to the realm of production and maintenance of identities under conditions of domination and control. It appears that who we are and what we become is determined. A new book, Anti-Oculus, studies the technologies of production of our selves...
Between Docility and Deviancy
In the new book, Anti-Oculus by a collective named as Acid Horizon, highlights a perilous moment in the 19th century medical discourse around uncontrollable deviant youth where ability and govern-ability became indistinguishable and blurred. This ability, then ,becomes a problem of governance . Thus, set apart the one who is deemed as deviant and disable is then viewed as...
Closed Futures and Open Hopes
We are often tormented by a sense of lost past, dislocated present and closed futures . Mark Fishers opines that neoliberal economy is haunted by lost futures. The fact that we are haunted by no alternative syndrome indicates to the haunting times that we live . Francis Fukuyama’s celebration of the end of history with the coming of Democracy...
Hope , Shame and Innocence
Slavoj Zizek cautioned us about the light that we see at the end of a dark tunnel . The light at the end of the tunnel can a headlight of engine coming to crush us. Thus, hoping against hope , we may become uncritical and blindly let our hope become self-destructive. But hopelessness is strength and courage. We need...
Is the ‘I’ in Me – a Data-bank?
The oculo-centric digital world has converted us into a data-bank. We feed the online database obediently. Big tech knows us more than we know ourselves. We have volunteered to be prisoners of the data world. We are our own prisoners. Data about us is gathered put to predictive analysis. Our moods, our vulnerabilities, our strengths and weaknesses are studied....
