For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Umar Nizarudeen The cyclical temporality of Indo-Iranian notions of metempsychosis lends itself to speculative fiction. The work of the Iranian thinker Reza Negarestani is interesting for its melding of petro-fiction with carbon lifecycles. The convoluted movement of energy and life in `Cyclonopedia’ cursorily lingers on theory. This visceral yet short excursus allows us an insight …
Umar Nizarudeen It has been said that Foucault was never enough of a Foucauldian. The epistemological ruptures and scales and the power figure of Foucault himself as the master signifier have not been obvious enough to the author’s function itself. But Derrida, on the other hand, has been painstakingly conscious that his writing had to …
Umar Nizar Furthermore, it is a commonplace that mistakes or errors are part of the learning process and thus essential to creativity: as Jung remarked, “anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead’, or as Hélène Cixous puts it: ‘our mistakes are our leaps in the night. Error is not lie; it …