We can see thinking as anticipating the futures to come. In some way thinking is foresight. Michel Serres thinks and anticipates the future through his figures of thought. Figures of thought are not generic patterns or tendencies. He thinks of them as algorithmic operators. They can produce infinite varieties of outputs from infinite varieties of inputs. He sees figures...
Euthanasia of the Reigning Government
We seem to be facing a heretical form of democracy. Democracy in our country is sick. If we cannot diagnose this fact, we may be ourselves sick and are suffering ideological illness. We have reached an exact opposite of anarchism. Anarchism thinks that we can live without centralized authority. We are actually facing an over centralization of authority. But...
Immunization, Imperialization and Totalization
Immunological thinking emerges out of insecurity. It comes from a felt need of self-protection. It has be told to us by scholars that immunological thinking emerged as a response to globalization. Identification with the local is based on and is against contaminating globalization. This brings out the subversive side of a community. In our country, for instance, those who...
Between Bare Life and Bare Death
Power operates today as bio-power. It has put a shape of what Michel Foucault calls governmentality. Governmentality is power that controls populations and the masses. Huge masses are sought to be controlled through biopower. This power work in the zone that Georgio Agamben calls bare life. When politics is employed to bestow bare life on some citizens, we have...
Addition as Subversion: Can Addition
Addition is a basic mathematical operation. It is regarded as simple and there is nothing much to say about it. As an idea, it might had been with humanity for very long time. Both addition and subtraction may have contributed a lot towards the process of civilizing of human beings. Because of its simplicity, it was not thought to...
Political in the Politics of our Country
The question of political puts the political into question. It is political of all politics . The political politicizes the polity It is the essence of politics. Without the political, there cannot be politics. Different shapes of politics arise from different forms of the political. There is no one singular, transcendent politics. There is no singular political too. Politics...
EVMs at time of AI
At a time of AI and the Internet of Things powered by 5G network can we still hold that EVMs are stand-alone machines that are not hackable? The cat appears to out of bag not just because of the election results of three Hindi heartland states have raised questions about safety of EVMs but also because elections commission itself...
Its not Cricket ! II
Team India played very well till the day of the final. While we can go ad nauseam speaking about the ‘ifs and buts’ of the match, we will do well to take notice of what we have lost besides cricket . Perhaps, even in its failure the way cricket was played it continues to ask questions to the powers...
It’s not Cricket!
Cricket in India has come a long way. The way the Indian team has played cricket, it has become a great unifier. When politics and caste seek to divide us, cricket appears to be the only glue that hold us together. The sheer joy it enables us to share indeed generates a sense of oneness. In several ways cricket...
Hindutva and Its Other
There is no one way of reading Fredrick Nietzsche. There are several readings of Nietzsche. Maybe we can also understand caste v/s Hindu nationalism in the light of Nietzsche. It might open to us the play field of politics in our country. The Congress and the Opposition are voicing for a caste census while the ruling BJP is opposing...
