Cancel culture is a culture of erasure. Cancellation opens fissures. It stands for omissions or absence(s). It is a blankness in whose place something will no longer be anything. It scrapes out something and tries to annul it. The site of cancellation is an empty place. Both Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida used the tactic of erasure as a...
The Mobs of Cancel Culture
In several ways the cancel culture is linked to a frenzied mob. It is this fear of an uncontrollable mob that gives cancel culture its power. Therefore, we have to understand how a real or imagined mob rules our thinking and gives legitimacy and power to cancel culture. Some scholars say that the like several things, the mob...
The Cancel Culture
When dissent is silenced, minorities are almost erased, life is castrated and not allowed to bloom to freedom, we have stepped into what has been aptly named as cancel culture. Often cancel culture hides under the cover of a religion, tradition, nationalism that it is purporting to defend. Unfortunately, we seem to be locked or even frozen into a...
