In this article, I trace the ghostly presence of Empire in the spatial architecture of London, an... more In this article, I trace the ghostly presence of Empire in the spatial architecture of London, and relate Arthur Machen's idea of the occult with this entanglement of the imperial with the metropolitan.
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2016
This article seeks to examine the dimension of “courage” or “risk” involved in the exercise of cr... more This article seeks to examine the dimension of “courage” or “risk” involved in the exercise of critique through a genealogical survey in relation to Michel Foucault’s work on Parrhēsia and an examination of Jonathan Swift’s Drapier’s Letters as an exemplar depicting the contours of “norm” in 18th century public discourse. The tension between norm, truth and freedom of speech would be brought out to examine the censorship, intrinsic to the foundation of universal public reason that is pointed out by Judith Butler in her critique of the Habermasian model of public discourse. The vocabulary of public discourse will be assessed to understand whether a universal normativity can at all be achieved.
In this article, I trace the ghostly presence of Empire in the spatial architecture of London, an... more In this article, I trace the ghostly presence of Empire in the spatial architecture of London, and relate Arthur Machen's idea of the occult with this entanglement of the imperial with the metropolitan.
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2016
This article seeks to examine the dimension of “courage” or “risk” involved in the exercise of cr... more This article seeks to examine the dimension of “courage” or “risk” involved in the exercise of critique through a genealogical survey in relation to Michel Foucault’s work on Parrhēsia and an examination of Jonathan Swift’s Drapier’s Letters as an exemplar depicting the contours of “norm” in 18th century public discourse. The tension between norm, truth and freedom of speech would be brought out to examine the censorship, intrinsic to the foundation of universal public reason that is pointed out by Judith Butler in her critique of the Habermasian model of public discourse. The vocabulary of public discourse will be assessed to understand whether a universal normativity can at all be achieved.
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