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  • abdul lateef: I am not sure DeLanda speaks to this specific issue you raise -which seems to me if I understand...

  • abdul lateef: jazz classic with all stars. thanx. one thing HH did took away as an inheritance from Miles...

  • debbanerji: For those left wondering who the rest of the cats are - on the mind-blowing trumpet is the late Freddie...

  • himanshu damle: I was wondering how to incorporate the De Landian notion of non-linearity with Hassan Khalil's linearization as a localized phenomenon...

  • abdul lateef: Very insightful comments that raise some further issues DB: "I enjoyed also the distinction he made about lifestyle politics of Indian...

  • roc: After India got Independence or even before that the leaders had their own definition of what India should be and...

  • debbanerji: As always, a great and insightful talk by Dipesh C. In particular his alternate definition of civilization based on Tagore...

  • Sundeep: Thanks for posting Gabbilam, Debashish. I wanted to add that this translation is for the first one-eighth of the long...

  • debbanerji: Excellent review. What the author asserts about English regional writing, as for example, from the Indian North-East, could also be...

  • abdul lateef: Not only does one get a clear exposition of non-linear dynamics, phase space, strange attractors etc from this lecture series...

  • abdul lateef: If one explores the poetry of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Rae Armantrout one finds a certain affinity between...

  • Ian Douglas: I am the author of this essay. The version SPEED used online appeared to erase the footnotes, which were important....

  • debbanerji: Ah, Demosthenes! by Wole Soyinka I shall ram pebbles in my mouth Demosthenes Not to choke, but half dolphin, half Shark hammerhead from fathoms deep Ride...

  • BharatBharti: I think Neeta Kumar has done a good study on the naming of the schools and human mentality behind these...

  • debbanerji: This is a terrific passage from a terrific book. Aravamudan parses Guru English in terms of Heidegger's standing reserve -...

  • abdul lateef: In his concluding paragraphs of Guru English Aravamundan makes some interesting observations on its commodity forms that remind one of...

  • debbanerji: AL: Rather what is problematized is the conveying of experience in which the connotative meaning of words are entangled with...

  • abdul lateef: DB:I know of some for whom the “sacred word” or “eternal text” or for that matter, the sacred image, are...

  • debbanerji: AL: I am not so sure that “differance” is fully comprehensible to so many mystic communities who tend to rely...

  • abdul lateef: DB: But as mystic communities everywhere know, language is a body of prakriti which means only what the purusha makes...

  • debbanerji: AL: The message here seems to be that if one prefers to wed their spirituality to evolution and in so...

  • abdul lateef: DB: Presumably (as per SA and M) the modality of knowledge in intuitive discrimination loses nothing of critical reason and...

  • chinabeyondthewall: Fantastic article! Thanks for sharing. chinabeyondthewall...

  • debbanerji: On the issue of recurrence and progress, as I understand it, in SA the two support each other. This...

  • debbanerji: AL: Moreover, if it is presented in such a manner that once critical reason serves its purpose it can then be...

  • abdul lateef: SA: A temporary reign of the critical reason largely destructive in its action is an imperative need for human progress.”[13]...

  • abdul lateef: Point well taken. In that particular passage about Whitman, Prashad is setting the context of exoticizing India in the American...

  • debbanerji: While undoubtedly there is an Orientalist ring to the poem, that indeed is the milieu in which Whitman's poem is...

  • abdul lateef: While I love Whitman and this particular poem, when view from a contemporary "poco" perspective this "overhead" poetry does...

  • debbanerji: Sattvic ego can manifest either as the ego of virtue or the ego of the instrument. The ego of virtue...

  • roc: Is there any other way to counter sattivc ego according to Sri Aurobindo? I wanted to know if my perceptions...

  • roc: "One can experience the role of psychic being as a guide at this point and argues the mental purusha to...

  • roc: You are right Debashish. I agree with your elaboration. It is interesting that the article mentions the problems of sattic...

  • debbanerji: In a number of places Sri Aurobindo has chareacterized his yoga as using the method of the Vedanta to achieve...

  • roc: "As such, especially given his emphasis on the creative power of Sakti, on the body, and on embodied spiritual transformation, it...

  • debbanerji: I agree with you about the eccentricity of equating the Matrimandir with the "agenda put forward in Bhawani Mandir." The...

  • Kepler: Overall, I found this article pretty good. I liked the author's critique of Heeh's tendency to over-interpret references to Tantra...

  • R.C: In his exploration of American post September 11 and the Financial Meltdown in the book "First as Tragedy then as...

  • R.C: Particularly Zarathustra itself can be read as a form of Guru English leading in to I also agree that a...

  • debbanerji: RC: Although the high Modernist period of Europe was not lost on him -the proclivities of Guru English nonwithstanding- it...

  • R.C: "Aravamudan classes Sri Aurobindo in his next form, that of romanticism. The romantic overlaps in this case with the neoclassical...

  • debbanerji: This is a very important work. Aravamudan has opened up an entire discourse which till now has remained untheorized. Of...

  • R.C: (the subject is an old man euphoric upon awakening and realizing that he has again lived to see the first...

  • R.C: read this one out loud: the shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to...

  • R.C: Your exploration of the Body Without Organs in the context of radical plurality and its convergence with Sri Aurobindo view...

  • debbanerji: Ok, I agree about situating this experiment within early 21st c. cybernetic/complexity paradigm of emergence. This paradigm itself, however, is...

  • R.C: Well I am not sure this its necessarily doxa anymore if its demonstrated under experimental conditions in a laboratory, that...

  • debbanerji: I still can't understand how the artificial synthesis of matter to produce compounds with life characteristics proves that life is...

  • R.C: Well its going to be quite a long while until the domain of synthetic life applies to anything larger than...

  • debbanerji: It seems to me that the question of the independence of Life or Mind from Matter hinges not on the...

  • R.C: IMO ( reflected in the article) if you want to either take the metaphysical or the empirical (scientific) argument for...

  • R.C: The fact that life has now been demonstrated to be the result of auto-catalytic molecular processes (material processes that sustain...

  • debbanerji: Excellent article drawing the subtle line between Nietzsche, Foucault, Stiegler and Sri Aurobindo in the perception of askesis or tapas...

  • R.C: Although some assign John Ashbery to the ranks of Language Poets in an interesting review of a collection of essays...

  • R.C: DR: Well, I read that chapter and page and guess what? RC has failed to recognize that this passage is...

  • Dr. R: RC: "Moreover, you are confusing complexity with powers of consciousness. “Powers of consciousness” per say does not even describe any...

  • Dr. R: 1. On Why RC Needs To Get his Aurobindo Straight: In his article "100 years of Sri Aurobindo on Evolution"...

  • Kepler: Our Dr. R goes on and on about the supposedly illicit and incoherent reification of terms like Mind or...

  • R.C: DR So, if “Intelligent Design” is understood in terms of an affirmation of an omnipotent and omniscient designing and organizing...

  • Dr. R: Let me sum up my main case against DB's attempt to defend Aurobindo's pervasive and flawed method of reification in...

  • Dr. R: 1. Alright, before I point out the tangle of confusion and misunderstanding in RC's and DB's responses to my criticisms,...

  • Kepler: One could go further in comparing scientific empiricism to mystic empiricism by pointing out that scientists make observations (which others...

  • debbanerji: RC: Moreover, your argument is fairly conventional and essentially comes down to the fact that none of us have access...

  • R.C: DR: Aurobindo is master of illicit reification! RC: But you can accuse the entire history of metaphysics as being guilty...

  • Debdeep: RC: First of all, thanks to you for such an informative and well-formatted post. Tridib Mitra: Sir, where can I get...

  • debbanerji: The only thing I can agree with in all this diatribe is that it is futile to spend any more...

  • Dr. R: Aurobindo's entire theory of evolution rests on his theory of the involution of "Satchidananda" into its opposite "the Inconscient"....

  • Dr. R: "Hence, a careful study of the writings of the “realized yogi” is the only means available to others to determine,...

  • Dr. R: DB: "you have invented the ground rules for philosophy." The principle that it is an error to turn attributes or qualities...

  • debbanerji: R: Aurobindo’s fundamental philosophical fallacy is to elevate attributes to the status of entities or agencies with causal powers. It seems...

  • Dr. R: Aurobindo is master of illicit reification! He bandies about pseudo-agents such as "Life", "Mind", "Overmind", "Supermind" and so on without...

  • erpiu: F&PP are wrong regarding many if not most of the petty quibblings that their book included about natural selection (NS),...

  • R.C: There was an excellent review by Dan Chiasson in the NY Review of Books of a book of new poems...

  • Tridib Mitra: Compare student leader Mr Lalu Yadav with student leader Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharjee....

  • R.C: RC: Do you have any references or links to what you mean when you say: TM: What you consider to be...

  • Subhankar Das: Great to know Sunil Gangopadhyay is still going strong( ?) ha ha I thought he was long dead as a...

  • Tridib Mitra: Mr Banerji, the Hungryalist movement was launched from Patna town, Bihar from where Malay Roychoudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Subimal Basak...

  • debbanerji: Foucault there contrasted two different relations of the subject to truth, corresponding to very different modes by which the subject...

  • debbanerji: Interesting visit by Tridib Mitra. I have no objection being called a coffee-house dilletante by you, sir. I don't claim...

  • Tridib Mitra: Forgot to say that Mr Roychoudhury's poems have created different type of ripples than what Mr Banerjiy is talking...

  • Tridib Mitra: I was one of the Hungryalists, who with his Hungryalist wife Alo Mitra edited two magazines (WASTE PAPER in English...

  • rc: Although Sri Aurobindo was comfortable with the French Symbolist -that influenced the Beats and the Hungrylists- and even seemed open...

  • debbanerji: Actually Krittibas can hardly be called “a pro Establishment commercial renegade coterie." It seems more like fractious infighting as in...

  • R.C: Actually I had already realized the statement about Tagore -seen somewhere else in the cybersphere- was in fact hyperbolic and...

  • debbanerji: RJC: perhaps the most noteworthy Bengali Poetry after Tagore took the form of a movement by disaffected, alienated young poets...

  • R.C: DB: John Ashbery may make a good inclusion in this study, as one who combines the quasi-surrealist collage-like braiding of...

  • debbanerji: It's interesting to see how, as English poetics has evolved in the 20th c., sruti (voice) and dristi (sight) have...

  • adam pogioli: I agree, great article. Since reading it, I found myself using some of the terms in place of Aurobindo's...

  • Steven Fama: Hi, and sorry to report a mistake, two in fact: Rexroth's apartment and Jack's Record Cellar were NOT at Page...

  • debbanerji: I would love to see the painting you speak of. You have not left your email for me to contact....

  • libramoon: I hope you don't mind that I sent this to the Seers and Seekers Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seerseeker/...

  • rc: Excellent article, the author does a great job explaining some important ideas in Steigler savoir-faire, retentional finitude, tertiary memory...

  • Rossi Claudio: Dear Sir, Thank you for your reply above. Yes, it may be correct what said above, in our records (only verbally) by...

  • nirmalya mukherjee: Jumpy and interesting analysis But it doesn't convey anything. We should try to unravel his calling for a life '...

  • debbanerji: I have no knowledge of Abanndranath Tagore meeting Dr.G.H.Mees from Holland at Shantiniketan between 1935-39. However, if Dr.Mees was only...

  • Rossi Claudio: Yes, very informative , thank you very much. Do you know in your archive-record: 1. Did Sri Abanindranath Tagore net at Shantiniketan...

  • Ed Baker: a very nice "run" here.. and do notice that Cid is/was a solidm plinth for these poets to step out/off from ...

  • lackson: bravo Ceasarie, like Banda of Malawi we respect you...

  • abdul lateef: An interesting article that complexifies any naive notion of the Ideal of Human Unity . If transnationalism is a graduation...

  • debbanerji: Among the many common misconceptions that arise from a literal understanding of the sayings of Sri Aurobindo or the Mother,...

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