We have resistance everywhere. People register their resistance in various ways. The politics of resistance is part of our life. We can see it working at several levels in our life. While we have experienced several shades of resistance and have become part of the same, may be time has come to understand what has been called following Slavoj...
Roberto Exposito and Affirmative Bio-politics
Michel Foucault teaches that control and surveillance over bodies increased in the seventeenth century with the rising tide of epidemics. This surveillance of the bodies alongside global pandemic has developed in an immunological paradigm. We can see a new immunological thinking in the work Roberto Exposito and Italian thinker. It does not see immunology as a protection from expropriation...
The Coming of the Society of Death
If we look at an individual as a self-produced subject , what is left is not community but totalitarianism that is mistaken as a humanism. If we wish to overcome the difference by the same, there can only be one all-encompassing reality. This makes the assemble a metaman and as such is a dead person. It is akin to...
Dharmic traditions and the Society of Banality of Evil
Dharmic traditions cannot be viewed through either/ or prism. Maybe the best way to view Dharmic traditions is to look at them through the lens of logic of ‘ and -and’. It is a pluralism of parallels. It posits A B, C …. can be together. It is a unity in diversity. It is not just Chinese ‘and-both’ Ing/Eng...
Society of Banality of Evil
What is happening in Manipur is telling us about what has happened to our society. It appears that we are fast losing our sense of evil. We no longer seem to have religious as well as philosophical and ethical language to address evil. Being a dharmic civilization, it appears that we have lost our dharma. We have become a...
When Speech turns Silent
Finally, our Prime Minter broke his silence on violence in Manipur. But his speech is greeted as worse than his silence. The www.scroll.in an online news portal said that by his own standards, his silence over Manipur was stunning yet his statement to the press outside the parliament was worse. When over 150 people were killed and thousands are...
Benality of Evil
When mass killing is thought to be just a number and development is reduced to mere economic growth, human struggles and tragedies remains forgotten. This is how we were bewitched by propaganda that positioned someone as a vikaspurush . Little did we realize that we were hit by what Hanah Arendt called the banality of evil. She was talking...
Political Discourse in Goa and its Genealogy
What good is genealogy for praxis? Nietzsche practised genealogy as a reflection on history. Nietzsche later used it to write his famous book, Genealogy of Morals which many might say is inflected by antisemitic bias. This method of genealogy was perfected and deployed by Michel Foucault to study history which he called the history of the present. All history...
Crisis of Freedom
What is a substantive form of democracy? Do we want to share power or be protected from its accesses/ abuses? Do we want to generate a future together or navigate, survive and hesitatingly reach what is fantasized as a golden Hindu Rashtra? Will this push give us emancipatory freedom? It does not seem so as we know that freedom...
Pyropolitics
It appears that the reigning BJP likes fire. It has a love of fire that is almost akin to Emperor Nero of Rome. These pyro tactics have been played in Gujrat, Delhi and now in Manipur. Lightning up fires is taught to produce votes by RSS and BJP. Now that it has tasted defeat in South India, besides, the...