Nearly
200 years of western dominance are coming to a close, and, as predicted by Sri
Aurobindo, “India
will rise from the ruins of the western civilisation.” … The
reality, that the west is in decline and many of its institutions are failing,
has still not struck us and we will continue to try and imitate them –
including dysfunctional family systems. We should recognise that we are a
civilisation and not just a market. Today funds are in search of markets and
not the other way round. Instead of heading global institutions, we should
acquire them.
Civilisationally,
we are nearer to the East than the West. We should take the lead along with
others in the East to create alternative institutions to the World Bank, the
IMF and the UN. The need is to recognise that the old debate about big business
or big government is passé. Our ability to look beyond Marx and market into our
thriving communities and bazaars will provide us answers to many issues.
Will
India ,
as Aurobindo mentioned, rise from the ruins of the West? The author is
Professor of Finance, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
From the Ruins of Empire (aurobindo, anticolonialist
narratives, islamic nationalism, hinduvta, in context) from Posthuman Destinies by abdul lateef Dec 14, 2012
I
am in the process of finishing this excellent book by Pankaj Mishra and it is
so nice to read an account of colonized movements for national
self-determination the remains sensitive to historical context. Among others
Sri Aurobindo is treated at some length in the book- The example below
demonstrates an even handed interpretation of Sri Aurobindo's efforts to the
struggle of Indian independence and the reader is left with a most favorable
impression from Mishra's exegesis of the historical record.
Sri Aurobindo wrote
in 1919, “Apart from all phenomena of decline or deterioration we should
recognise without any sophistical denial those things in our creeds ...
Rhetorical Swiss-knives: Part 3 by Siddhartha
Chatterjee Dec 15, 2012
The
main strength of any dogma, be it religious or political, lies in people’s
willingness to submit to it without asking a question. So ask a question and
don’t expect to be called an intellectual. If asking a question strips you of
any credential then it is a credential we never needed in the first place.
Arthur Kroker: Body Drift in the Writings of Judith Butler,
Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway
from Posthuman Destinies by abdul lateef Dec 14, 2012
(Body
Drifts: A new book from Arthur Kroker) Arthur Kroker: In the same way that
Nietzsche once said that all of his thought was posthumous, that is a form of
thought that would only be fully understood later by those fully experiencing
the sublimity and bitterness of nihilistic culture, Katherine Hayles's thought
has the same sense of being fully ahead of its time, an intimation of an
approaching posthuman condition the full complexity of which is not yet fully
understood.
We
shouldn’t begin from the premise that posthumanism entails what is good.
It recognizes reality in recognizing that there are nonhumans
with their own interests and that there are “aliens among us” already in the
form of intelligent cognitive beings that might depend on humans but which are
not themselves humans (a central theme of Kafka’s literature).
Racial
and gender inequalities are orders, but few of us would say that they are good orders.
As theorists such as David Harvey argue, economic inequality is geographically
distributed.
In
fact, modern day social scientists, such as Nobel Prize winning author Daniel
Kahneman in his recent book Thinking, Fast and Slow has
illustrated numerous instances where our “free choice” is conditioned by
training, language, background and various propensities.
PDF of “Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of Alfred
North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to Contemporary Scientific Cosmology”
[and Table of Contents] from Footnotes to Plato by Matthew David Segall
Here’s
a hyperlinked outline of a long essay on Whitehead and scientific cosmology
that I’ll post in sections.
Kian
December
15, 2012 at 2:27 am For what it’s worth, Terrence Malick’s The Tree
of Life is probably the most spiritually rewarding movie I’ve ever
seen.
Satyajit
Ray’s ‘Abhijan’ from sunayana.com I have just watched Satyajit Ray’s early
film Abhijan and am still under the spell of the Master. The story is about a
taxi driver who is of rajput origins and who now lives in poverty. He owns an
old … finish reading Satyajit Ray’s ‘Abhijan’
My favorite #kurosawa films have been rashomon and kagemusha.
Now will add ikiru to that list. Simply superb #iffk from Shadow Warrior by nizhal yoddha
Melancholia: first attempt by Steven Shaviro Nov 29, 2011
Here’s
an abstract that I have just written on the subject of von Trier’s Melancholia.
It’s my first attempt at getting a grip on what I want to say about the film. Black Swan by Steven Shaviro Jan 6, 2011
I
really loved Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. It joins Splice, Toy
Story 3, Scott Pilgrim, and Enter the Void as
one of my favorite films of 2010.
The Passing of Togo Mukherjee « Overman Foundation Dear
Friends,
On
Friday, 14 December 2012, at 4 p.m. Shri Dhritindranath Mukherjee, better known
as Togo in the Aurobindonian community, has passed on to the Beyond three days
after his seventy-fifth birthday. Born to Tejendranath (the eldest son of the
famous revolutionary Jatindranath Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin) and Usha
Mukherjee on 11 December 1937, he visited Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry
at the age of ten with his parents and two elder brothers, Rothindranath and
Prithwindranath in August 1948. Before he left for Pondicherry, he had told his
chums that he would not return to Kolkata. The three brothers were so enchanted
by the divine atmosphere of Sri Aurobindo Ashram that they decided to stay back
at Pondicherry.
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