Our universe is not locally real. You heard it right. Three Scientists John F. Clauser, Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect were given Noble Prize in 2022 for just demonstrating this. It reminds us of the legendary Richard Feynman who once said, ‘if you think that you have to understand quantum physics, you don’t understand it.’ In fact, Albert Einstein...
Saving Beauty Saving Ourselves
Beauty is said to reside in the eye of the beholder. A thing of beauty catches our attention. We stand in wonder and awe in front of it. Philosopher Byung-Chul Han asks: is beauty a mere distraction? Does it take us to the truth? or does it take us in another direction, in the direction of folly? Do we...
Understanding Temporal Sovereignties
Time is omnipresent. It lives in us and we live in time. Time sets the tempo of life. It vilifies our hopes and electrifies our desires and aspirations. There are several lines of time co-occurring along the sides. Each of us aligns our life to these times flowing through other humans, livings things and our cultural forms and institutions....
Theology of Migration
Migration is an important phenomenon of our times. Unfortunately, it not so much welcomed in our days. Migrants are looked upon as burden by countries. What could be a Christian response to migration? is there a theology of migration. Migration is a sign of our times and is a challenge of pastoral care. Existentialists tell us that humans as...
De-imperializing Writing
Writing can be an act of imperialism. Feminists have alleged that writings are patriarchal. Anti-race and anti-caste activists have demonstrated that writings are also race or caste laden. Like Martin Heidegger who thinks that our language is already metaphysical, several thinkers think that our language is already value laden and as such is already biased towards the interest of...
Writing with Signs
Everything emits Signs. The primordial form of writing that is inscribed into things that we experience is one of signs or signals emitted by them. These signs are not of the same kind and do not have the same way of appearance and do not allow themselves to be deciphered in the same way. Signs, therefore, are not homogeneous...
The Writings in the Alphabets of Numbers
Numbers are linked to calculations. We are taught at several levels to do calculations with numbers. Calculation is something that is geared to get the right answers. This is why perhaps, mathematics and numbers are associated with the drills of multiplication tables, the drudgery of division, rote memorization of formulae etc. Is that all that we can do with...
Alphabetic Writings and our Society
Derrida invites us to think that everything is writing. This includes also our speaking. Body of the speaker has always acted as the support for his/her message. Perhaps, to draw these insights, we may have consider the work of Michel Serres. Although, Serres does not agree to reduce our speaking to writing, his intrumentalization of the body in act...
Writing Before the Letter
Is there writing before the letter? What does grammatology, the science of writing teaches us? We have to first give up or suspend that the evolution of writing depended on the perfection of alphabetization. Maybe we have to give up thinking that writing is an exteriority to speech and speech is an exteriority to thought. This thinking flows on...
Arche-Writing
In order to come to arche-writing as taught Jacques Derrida, we have to understand views on Plato’s Khora. Plato’s dialogue, the Timaeus is about creation of the universe and the creation of human beings. Khora is an empty placeless place from which everything that is drives. It is paired with the Good, its polar opposite. Khora is not same...
