Science has emerged as a disciplining practice/ technology. Every other discipline has been assigned its place in the universe of knowledge in relation to science and technology. Science enjoys hegemony and has occupied an imperial position. Following Gilles Delleuze and Felix Gauttari , we might say that it constitutes a revolutionary force in a sense that when one reaches...
Pope Francis and the Capitalist Order
‘Capitalism is terrorism against all of humanity’ says Pope Francis. How are we to understand this unprecedented and scathing critique of capitalism from the head of the Catholic Church? His holiness names the excesses of the global capitalism as ‘the dung of the devil’. Maybe someone might describe Pope Francis as an anti-Oedipus. He does not seem to fit...
Re-inventing Hermeneutics of Suspicion from contemporary Indian Realities
This paper has an expressed desire to re-invent hermeneutics of suspicion from contemporary Indian realities. In order that our exercise is fruitful, we are challenged to trace the trajectory of desire in our society. Desire was studied by psychoanalysis for some time. Lately, another mode called schizoanalysis has emerged as a profound way of understanding the trajectory of desire....
Desire/Taste and the Worlds of the Internet
If thinking is a form of writing as Jacques Derrida would like us to believe then we have been thinking with our eyes. All thinking has been visual-centric. We have already seen how Derrida tried to shift the centre of gravity of our thinking to our sense of smell and taste away from eyes and ear. This is why...
Goans Between Desire and Drive
Most of us have a sense of being blown away by a nameless force that embeds our mass culture. Goa is no exception to this predicament of humanity in our country and the world. We seem to feel that the ground under our feet is fast shifting and Goans, Goa ad Goan-ness are in an exile right in front...
Faith, Desire and Power
Faith, desire and power intermingle and produce a dangerous cocktail today that assaults our democracy and society more than never before. We are facing an undoing of the demos and have put up a democtator and are practically living in a democtatory in the power of faith, desire and politics. The mergers of the above sacred three forces in...
