What I am going to argue is that the critical mind, if it is to renew itself and be relevant again, is to be found in the cultivation of a stubbornly realist attitude—to speak like William James—but a realism dealing with what I will call matters of concern, not matters of fact. The mistake we made,...
Artificially maintained controversies are not the only worrying sign. What has critique become when a French general, no, a marshal of critique, namely, Jean Baudrillard, claims in a published book that the Twin Towers destroyed themselves under their own weight, so to spea...
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist best known for the influential book ‘We Have Never Been Modern’. In his 2004 article, ‘Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern’ Latour wonders whether the tools postmodern c...
Sathyameva - Krithika
There are very few Tamil writers who write with something they call “sensibility” in western literature. Every novel and short story in Tamil feels exactly the same to a discerning reader. The writers who are exceptions to this rule are very few.
Sathyameva, an imaginative ...
The Ketta Varam temple, situated atop the mountain, is said to grant whatever boon its devotees wished for. In Anutthama’s novel Ketta Varam, Perumal, the main deity of the temple, officiates three marriages; pairing a Rayar girl with a Rayar boy, an Ayyangar girl with an Ayyanga...
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