We assume that we make all things through thinking. None other than it is Aristotle, who taught us hylomorphism, where we are taught that we make things through thinking. This means things are first thought in the mind and then are brought to actuality. Let us ask the opposite of this usual position that we have accepted without much...
Are Non-Spaces making us Non-selves?
Space becomes a place when we relate to it bringing meaning to it and to us. We belong to a place and conform to a non-place. A non-place like an airport, mall, or hospital is not a place of transgression. One has to be within what is accepted as expected public behaviour. Although, there is excessive space, lighting and...
Sociology of Emotions: Emodities in the Market and Political Space
We are living in a world of emodities. Emotions have become commodities. Capitalism has extended our commodity experience. We consume not just the products. We have become cannibalistic. We are consuming ourselves along with the products. Emotion of performativity comes along with consumption. Commodities facilitate the experience of emotion and so emotions are converted into commodities. Commodities produce emotions...
Sociology of Love
Some of us do have an attitude that says he/ she lived happy ever after. Hence, why should we be interest in the book, why love hurts? By sociologist Eva Illouz . Maybe be it will interest us to find how ⁸the sociology of love has changed. Love was a masculine thing. It was the thing of male character....
Education as a Practice of Freedom
The heart of education is the education of the heart. The best education refuses to bureaucratize our minds. It leads us to live life as a process which enables us to live to become. Unfortunately, education is tainted by a sense of achievement or completion. Such a perspective limits learning. One thinks that one finished learning after formal education...
Practice of Idiotism as Resistance
Han teaches that the idea of idiotism is a practice of freedom and emancipation. The challenge is to stand outside the order of things of achievement society. It is the challenge to be wholly other, the idiot. Han calls one who brings a new idiom an idiot. Socrates is an example par excellence of idiotism. The only thing that...
Embracing the Other
With globalization, the world became flat. It was a relentless attack on the otherness of the other in our world. It brought about dissolution of the borders and distinctions across the globe. But with the depletion of otherness and coming of sameness, violence did not disappear. The flattening of the world and the erasing of otherness was itself violence....
The Society of Selfie
Reality is mass produced for and by us. We as subjects of achievement society are living in a world of signs that combine together to produce the real. With the digital revolution the real is obliterated by its own image or model. The simulation has become the real. Jean Baudrillard calls it hyperreality. Everything is summoned before the jurisdiction...
Achievement Society and its Achievement Subject
We live in an accelerated society. Our modern work culture has converted each of us into a Sisyphus of Albert Camus. We do not have time to stand and stare. Byung-Chul Han diagnoses that we living in a burnout society. A neoliberal society has set us on a rat race. It has enslaved us to an obsession to maximize...
Learning from the Calculus of Education
The Calculus of education that we have tried to evolve in our study has several lessons for us. Some of the lessons are known to us. But there is no harm in underlining them with new emphasis. One of the important lessons, is that we can draw is that education is a journey. It takes student, teacher and the...
