Holding on to grammatology, we can see how we have privileged only the sense of vision and have used it to legitimate all thinking. The etymology of the word Idea (idein) , the smallest unit of thought comes from the Greek root that means the look of a thing. The same is true of the Latin, video which means...
The Wasteful Self of the Internet
There is no doubt that we have moved into a post-literate society. Following Gregory Ulmer, we call it electracy. Just like literacy gave us the technology of phonic writing and its allied possibilities of manipulation of words and meanings, electracy has given us the technology of the internet and its allied possibilities of manipulation of digital images/ traces. Literacy...
The Demiurge of the Web
The internet is disruptive in character. It has disrupted the linear modes of communication. Non-linearity has become the order of the day. The linear modes of narration, description, exposition, argumentation and critique that profoundly belong to literacy are steadily dying in the post-literacy society. We can find that the texts of the internet are laid out in a linear...
The Chora-Logic and Us
The world of the internet has shifted us from the texts of literacy that made us concerned about what the texts meant or at most what we make of them to what can be made with them. This has brought our inventive or heuretic dimension to the texts of the internet. This is the reason writing becomes the best...
Body; Gaze, Shame and Counter Gaze
The metaphysics of presence is also a metaphysic of gaze. The metaphysics of presence claims the original privilege of self-transparency and plunges into immediacy. As we circum ourselves to the metaphysics of presence, our being-in-the-world comes under its gaze and we become presence-centric in all our thinking and being. Perhaps, we might trace intertwined entangling space between Derrida, Foucault...
The Psychological Roots of Ecological Crises
There is a psychological relation to the ecological crisis that we are facing globally as a human family. The ecological disaster that is hanging as a sword of Damocles on our heart is threatening to destroy all forms of life from our common home. Although, there are direct physical causes to the ecocide that is staring in our eyes,...
The Logic that Thinks ‘Between and Beyond’
Michel Foucault called for the decapitation of the head of the king in political theory. It seems that we have reached this beheading in reining logic that grounds all our either/ or thinking. The either/ or logic was given a death blow by quantum physics that studies the dynamics of the subatomic particles. It has been said that the...
Ethics of Gene Editing
Science of Gene editing is raising ethical and safety questions. These new technologies are increasingly pushing us to think of humans in mechanistic terms. This is why there are fears of leading us to accept mere narrow ways of being humans where the rich and powerful elite minority will have control over the rest of the world and humanity....
Neuroscience and MOI
The brain science has opened several windows on human life. The findings of this science are revisiting several of our strong held beliefs and convictions about human life. These studies are beginning to show that our brain is not static but evolving and growing in complexity over time. Some activities like music, mathematics, sports, art and philosophy can reshape...
