Papers by Srinivas Lankala
for their friendship and their support at various stages in the last few years. I would like to t... more for their friendship and their support at various stages in the last few years. I would like to thank my aunt and uncle, Rajeshwari and Mohan Budidha for hosting me during the itinerant last days of its completion and my sister Srinayani whose own thesis reached its conclusion during this time. I owe the largest debt to my parents, Sarala and Krishnavardhan, for their understanding and patience through the many years of reading and writing that shaped this dissertation. To them this work is dedicated with affection and respect.
Cultural Politics an International Journal, 2014
With questions addressing ideas central to Virno's thinking as they relate to prominent t... more With questions addressing ideas central to Virno's thinking as they relate to prominent trends in critical theories over the past decades, this interview helps illuminate Virno's position as an engaged intellectual and the continued relevance of his thought to the emancipatory project initiated by Marxism in the last century.
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
COVID-19 pandemic is the first truly global crisis in the digital age. With death count worldwide... more COVID-19 pandemic is the first truly global crisis in the digital age. With death count worldwide reaching 586,000 merely 7 months after its first outbreak in China in late December 2019 and 13.6 million cases reported in 188 countries and territories as of July 2020, this ongoing pandemic has spread far beyond domain of world health problem to become an unprecedented challenge facing humanity at every level. In addition to causing social and economic disruptions on a scale unseen before, it has turned the world into a site of biopolitical agon where science and reason are forced to betray their impotence against cultish thinking in the planetary endgame depicted in so many dystopian science fictions. It is in this context that this forum offers a set of modest reflections on the current impacts incurred by the COVID-19 virus. Blending ethnographic observations with theory-driven reflections, the five authors address issues made manifest by the crisis across different regions, while...
Drawing on Mahmood Mamdani's analysis of the 'good Muslim-bad Muslim' dichotomy within American p... more Drawing on Mahmood Mamdani's analysis of the 'good Muslim-bad Muslim' dichotomy within American political and cultural discourse, this article analyses Hindu nationalists' violent campaigns against India's Muslim minority through a discussion of the reportage of two significant instances of this violence in Indian English-language newspapers. To explain the contradictory responses of the Indian press to these instances, the article argues that the prevalent liberal consensus of Indian nationalism, of which the press is a part, is responsible for the ambiguity that characterises mainstream responses to majoritarian violence against Muslims. Current trajectories in Indian politics are usually traced to the watershed period of the late 1980s and early 1990s which witnessed both the neo-liberal restructuring of the economy and the emergence and rapid rise of explicitly political organisations that espouse Hindutva ('Hinduness'), a self-defined ideology of Hindu supremacy and cultural nationalism 2. The co-evolution of these two phenomena has linked them together in unexpected ways, but while economic 'liberalisation' is understood as a policy integrating India more closely into a capitalist world-economy, the religious nationalist ideology of Hindu supremacy would appear to have the opposite effect in rhetorical terms. However, as this essay argues, Hindutva has also served to integrate India into the current cultural logic of US imperialism premised on a permanent conflict with 'Islamic' terrorism. This relationship has been most sharply fore-grounded by the American response to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. The mediation of this response and of subsequent events in the Indian English-language press serves to illustrate the enmeshing of Indian nationalism within the American imperialist project in Asia.
With questions addressing ideas central to Virno's thinking as they relate to prominent trends in... more With questions addressing ideas central to Virno's thinking as they relate to prominent trends in critical theories over the past decades, this interview helps illuminate Virno's position as an engaged intellectual and the continued relevance of his thought to the emancipatory project initiated by Marxism in the last century.
In this interview, Anne Fagot-Largeault discusses with Thierry Bardini her recollec- tions of the... more In this interview, Anne Fagot-Largeault discusses with Thierry Bardini her recollec- tions of the life and work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989). The discussion covers Simondon’s theory of individuation and considers its influences on contemporary thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze and Franc ̧ois Laruelle. Fagot-Largeault situates Simondon’s thinking within the broader context of 20th-century biological research and the development of life sciences. Informed by her personal association and experiences working with Simondon, her reminiscences shed light on the unique character of Simondon as a person and as a thinker.
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