Coronavirus has almost cleansed our desk which displayed all our achievements so far. It has exposed that there are holes in the manner we organise our life. We might think that the virus has arrived late. It has not given us an early signal. Its late arrival has caught us unawares. This sense of late coming has to...
Hesitant Living and its Hauntologies
We struck by a ghostly virus. The spectre of the novel coronavirus is everywhere. It has haunted our life, work and place. It hidden and liminal position of the virus defines the spectrality that haunts the global human community. We can certainly trace a spectral turn in our life. We are living hesitatingly fearing the spectre of the deadly...
A Different Lesson from Corona Moment of Humanity
Will the new world that we enter post-pandemic of coronavirus manifest trust deficit? Trust is the basis of all human relations. Our politics and economics are also a matter of levels of trust. Will the right-wing politics that cash on fear and trust deficit grow across the globe? What will happen to neo-liberal economic policies? Are we heading to...
Between Biopower and Thanatopower
Power is everywhere. We can trace power in a coronavirus. It has overpowered human life. We have little or no knowledge of the virus. It is this knowledge gap that has given it the power edge over humanity. The virus is acting over our bodies and we are all trying to save each other’s bodily life. It is...
Staying Ahead of the Covid-19
Part I There are some missing links in the narrative about the origin of coronavirus. These gaps produce conspiracy theories. It does raise an all-important question. Who stands to benefit by covering the truth? We need our susegad attitude to calmly scrutinize the entire saga of the coronavirus. We need this exercise to stay against the virus both now...
Hunting down Covid-19
Testing for COVID-19 is a search problem. It is like a maze. We are chasing the virus COVID-19. Maybe we can use the model from the search algorithms that artificial intelligence is using. There are several algorithms that can assist us to model our hunt for COVID-19. But the issue is to find the optimal solution that...
Lessons from the Corona moment of Humanity
The First Lesson Human life exists in a plenum/fullness. When we are born we are immersed in this fullness. At that point, we are unable to divide ourselves from anything. The world exists seamlessly with us and to us. The pillow, the bedsheets, our mother or other caregivers are not separable during this time. But we cannot stay in...
The Weight of The Knee on Our Necks
George Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe’, echo the fate of every person infected with the coronavirus. Today a hate virus as well as a bio-lethal virus, does not allow us to breathe easy. While the COVID-19 pandemic is taking our breath away, we can’t hold our breath and see how a virus of hate is refusing to...
Fearsome Lessons from the Corona Resurrection
Can we do a psychoanalysis of the covid-19 pandemic? Will such an exercise open a new window to us to understand our world and ourselves? There is therapy in psychoanalysis. To tap these therapeutic resources, maybe be we have to learn from the work of Slavoj Zizek. Zizek has already done psychoanalysis of several films. One of his efforts...
The Libidinal Hostilities and Phobic Responses
We have been pained by recent the spate of desecration of crosses and other holy spaces in Goa. While we have not been able to nap the culprits, Goans have shown that they cannot be provoked by the sinister designs of the wicked perpetrators of these crimes. The impacts of these crimes are devastating to its victims and cannot...
