Can a reader really mark a critical distance from the text he/she is engaging with ? Does the reader falsely thinks that he/ she is distancing himself/herself from a text? Does this mean that the reader in not so innocent but is guided by his/her prejudice? He we have to note that the text is not just actually physically...
Mimetic Reading
Is the unconscious involved in our reading of a text? Does the reader’s unconscious engages the text? Is there a mimetic reading? mimesis of the past is based on sense of fidelity to the cumulative deposit of socially interpreted life patterns and cultural products. Mimetic reading is often a biographical reading. It takes the text as the mirror of...
Reading to Come and Readers to Come
Nietzsche saw Plato’s advocacy of the eternal world as his weakness. He thought it was way of escaping the real world that was constantly changing. This is why Nietzsche affirms the flux of changing world and upholds becoming. May be this is why we can also read the madman passage in Gay Science where he announces the death of...
Reading After Metaphysics of Presence
Manifestation of being is a hermeneutical act. It is our belief that being manifests itself is our act seeking understanding . Alethia as revelation of truth manifests being. This revelation is dynamic. Hence, reading in this sense is not bringing out the meaning of a text (Auslegung) but bringing the being to manifestation. It is manifestation of human existence....
Resisting and Responding to the Worlds of Electracy
Like, subscribe and share seem to have become the order of the day in a world of seamless internet and social media. The world has truly become a village and we are now more linked than ever before. Gregory Ulmer teaches us that we have shifted from literacy to electracy. He casts electracy as an apparatus, a kind of...
Living the Natural contract as Gratitude
The fact that humans are parasitical in the non-human world is but natural that humans have to adopt an attitude of gratitude. The parasitic relations do not involve mutuality. They are unidirectional and involve only taking and no giving. The realization that humans have their life and being in a parasitic relationship with the non-human world strikes a definite...
The Embedded and Embodied Humans
Human exceptionality as discovers of the secrets of all births of everything along with the ontology of inseparability inside oneself and outside of natural and the cultural (embodied and embedded nature of humanity) existence manifests a contract with nature. The natural contract was unfortunately set aside and forgotten by the social contract of modernity. The social contract of modernity...
Thinking Indians (III)
What is the kind of thinking that we need today as Indians? This question is not unnecessary but is relevant to the difficult times that we find ourselves today. We may ask: what is truly Indian? Thinking that fragments Indians on the basis of culture and faith or one that embraces difference and diversity on the basis of our...
Before and After Humanism: the coming of Posthumans
Michel Foucault teaches that man is an invention of recent date and has neared its end. In his book, the Archeology of Knowledge, he foretold the funeral of man. Post-humanities have already conducted the funeral of humans. The face of a man drawn on the sand at the edge of the seas is almost erased. Man is no longer...
Teaching to Transgress: The Four Discourses of Lacan (IV)
Psychoanalysis is important in the application of grammatology as a pedagogy. Applied Grammatology does not wish to eliminate speech, representation, truth as correspondence and even science from academic discourse. What it aims at is that it attempts to put them in their place. It means that it attempts to show that they are not the binary opposite of each...
