The Author meets Critics discussion on Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando is session II/2 of the 42nd Annual KJSNA Meetings 2021. First discussant: Debashish Banerji.
This paper explores how North Indian raga music can be understood as a sonic-ritual that functions as an interface opening to outside of thought, or beyond the human register.
A.K. Ramanujan’s “A Flowering Tree” reports a popular folktale from the Kannada oral tradition where the female protagonist transforms into a tree and gradually achieves agency. This paper argues that the tale makes possible the acknowledgement of the life-force (“zoe”) present in all the non-human life-forms constituting ecology.
The essay explores whether, a text like Gun Island manifests a sense of revival of supressed cultural traditions as a reproach towards Eurocentric humanism.