In the intricate tapestry of human civilization, art has long been celebrated as a medium of beauty, expression, and transcendence. However, philosophers like Boris Groys challenge conventional views of art as a passive or decorative object, instead positioning it as an active force that shapes ideologies, manipulates perceptions, and negotiates the tension between autonomy and control. Groys’ seminal collection...
Art as Anachronistic: Embracing Untimeliness
Giorgio Agamben’s philosophical ideas offer a unique perspective on our relationship with time. His concept of “untimeliness” challenges conventional notions of progress, history, and contemporaneity. For Agamben, untimeliness is not a rejection of the present but a radical way of engaging with it. In the context of our art exhibition, Agamben’s idea of untimeliness helps us understand how time...
Healing the Republic of Hurt Sentiments
We have the challenge to take hurt seriously. While we resist the republic of hurt, we cannot simply dismiss the fact of hurt. We, therefore, ask: Who is hurt? Who can hurt? What is the condition of getting hurt ? Who can get hurt? What hurts? What is the response to hurt? Hurt affects different people differently. In the...
Deimperailizing Decoloniality
The concept of decoloniality has gained great currency these days. It evokes response that seeks to undo the burdens and the ills of colonization which are persisting in our times. But of late there is a sense of unease with the term decoloniality and thinkers are looking beyond it. In India, decoloniality appears to be appropriated by the right...
Freedom and Free Thinking
Freedom and Free thinking seem to have come under attack in Goa these days. This condition has been afflicting Goa for quite some time now. It seemed to have come in the open with cases being levelled on a renowned rationalist and free thinker from Goa. The levelling of FIR against acclaimed man of letters Datta Damodar Naik seems...
Embracing Emancipative Performatives of Time
Contestation of regimes of time that rule over us requires us to be transgressive. It requires us to embrace border crossing interrogating the dogmatic boundaries imposed on us by our society. Our economic, political as well as religious domains have together constructed a matrix into which modern regimes of time have their life and being. In fact, these regimes...
Colonial Regime of Time
Colonization is about control of land, people and their resources. Colonization has a special relation with time. The colonized people we not considered to be coeval with the colonized. They considered the colonized people as to be underdeveloped and behind time. This sense of lagging in time justifies, naturalizes and normalizes colonization and imperialism and positions it as a...
Modern Regimes of Time
With modernity time has acquired a shape of an arrow that runs irreversibly from past into the future. We think that this understanding of time is normal, natural and the way time is. This seems to indicate that time is objective and above human manipulation. It seems that it is the new method measuring things that gave time its...
Intertices of the Present, Past and the Future
Our past had several futures. One that became our present is one of them. There is no one closed Hegelian future unfolding down the lanes of history. In fact, there is no one history. There are several pasts and one such past has been lifted up and written as history mainly by vested interest. History, thus becomes a mirror...
Regimes of the Same and Regimes of the Other (3) —Becoming a Disassemblage
Assemblage is always a joint. In fact, it is many joints stitched together. A joint is always a gap and link. Assemblage joins many things in a manyfold ways. Assemblage cannot be fully joined into a one. The regimes of the same reduces the assemblage as other of the same. They cannot reduce the multiplicity that forms the assemblage...
