a continuation of non/articulated discussions

06Jul07

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?

04Jul07

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