Michel Foucault has dealt with the penal, academic and the medical in his books, Discipline and Punish and Birth of Clinic. They deal with the power of surveillance which has grown exponentially with the rise of communication technology and AI. I have dealt with its impact in my book, Being Human in a World of Artificial intelligence. Here, I...
The Big Data Bluff
Michel Foucault taught us how modernity made us subjects by subjecting us to diciplinary regimes. All these displinary regimes operated by confining individuals. Power was mainly exercised on the body of the individual. Modernity trived on instuitions that became spaces of confinement. Foucault studies prisons, hospitals, mad houses etc. He declared that modernity produced disciplinary societies. Gilles Deleuze teaches...
Towads a Backward and Forward Reading of Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is a great thinker. He raised the question of the meaning of Being. He boldly declared that Western Philosophy had forgotten the meaning of Being. Being was thought as a noun and therefore it came to be thought as a thing. Being is also a verb. West forgot that Being is a verb. He. Therefore, proposed a...
Populism, Polarization and Post-Truth
Free societies are experiencing an enemy from within. It is threatening to destroy these societies from within. It is invisible and appears friendly. This is why our first task is to name it. It is power that has taken a new malignant form. It mimics democracy while at the same time undermines it. Thus, it eats away the fundamentals...
The Community in the Coming
The coming has relation to the future. It is whatever that is in the coming. It also has relation with our desire. Whatever is coming, therefore ,is not indifferent and immaterial. The fact that it is desired, it is somewhat closed but is sufficiently open as it is not one that belongs to this set or that set ,...
Speaking , Writing and Death
Our speech works against the pressure of time. The present limits our speech. As we pass into the next moment, our words pass into the past. There is a negation attached to our speaking. It can never be fully present. It always passes away as soon as we speak. There is negation of speaking at the very heart of...
Thinking Silence
Have we lost silence? Silence opens us to sense, think, read, write and speak. Silence stands outside our thought as well as enable us to sense it. But a loss of silence can afflict our thinking. We sense and think in silence but cannot preserve it. There is negativity at the heart of silence. We cannot fully absorb it...
Dealing with Pastness of the Present
We are facing erasure of the past and the present in our country. Often the great figures of past are put in oppositional relation with other leaders of that time. This is because of the politics of today wants to control the pastness of the present of our society. Somehow the pastness of the present has a hold over...
Repressive Tolerance
We experience a ruptured existence in our country. The rupture is harsh and decisive. Our silence seems to have become repressive tolerance. It appears that we are immersed in a intensely consecrated moment which manifests our heartless coldness as Indians. There is heinous violence around us brewed by a politics of hate and fear. Unfortunately, it appears that some...
Bonding with Otherness
There are several thinkers of otherness. Zizek reminds us that a subject is a crack. A subject marks a crack with the world and lives its otherness from the world. Our cognition arises out of our collision with nothing as Jean Paul Sartre teaches us. We as beings-in-the-world define our otherness with reference to the world. But often fail...
