Posts Tagged ‘jnu’
on ‘home’ and jack sparrow…
this post directly takes off from recent conversations with wonder woman: the ultra-speed multitasking superheroe… the discussions were respectively on the difficulties of renting an appartment and on various issues related to love and politics (including love of politics and politics of love)… the latter discussion was inspired by a wonderful performance by kabeer sumon…
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Tags: calvin, captain jack sparrow, feminism, jnu, love, masculinity, mib, munirka, politics, wonder woman
‘abhav’
‘abhav’ is a category of nyaya and navya nyaya (systems/philosophies of logic) meaning ‘presence of absence’… so if the pot is not in the house, the nyayayika (practitioner of nyaya) will say that the absence of the pot is present in the house…
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Tags: abhav, jnu, space
this post was brewing in my mind, in context of recent discussions i had wid ths frnd, a document written by her that i commented upon a month back, an old letter (dated 21st march 06) and post in her blog… it was aided by the fact that i was ill for last 3 days and it was raining all the time, and i cudnt go out, and i am very disturbed by the things happening in jnu and abt lotsa other things…
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Tags: deconstruction, development, genealogy, jnu, minimum wage, praxis, theory
what does the powerless do?
recently read joe sacco’s palestine and watched ararat made by atom egoyan… palestine is a work of political journalism using the medium of graphic novel… genre-bending stuff… great work of art… very interesting compositions… what attracts me most probably is the highly self-reflexive manner of narrating… as joe moves through the locales tis always in his mind that he is gonna draw ths thing, so always thinking about how to get an interesting angle – in reporting as well as visually… tht makes him to stand in a certain place when a strife breaks out between israeli soldiers and palestinians… joe clearly suffers from what probably every conflict-zone journalist suffer from – the naturalisation of violence…
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Tags: ararat, atom egoyan, graphic novel, jnu, joe sacco, minimum wage, palestine, palestine conflict
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