latent.
in abeyance.
lurking to be discovered, the dust is.
waiting to be discussed.
well atleast, its not going to be posthumous.
i attended a lecture today at Christ University, in Bangalore. I am still here, I will leave for Varanasi tomorrow. I heard the lecture was on Lacan, and was quite curious to see :
1. how lacan would be introduced to
1.1. students in India,
1.2. by an Indian Professor who has studied in India.
2. how I would understand Lacan
2.1. while in this environment (india)
2.2. with my awareness.
to say I was impressed would seem arrogant. It probably is. But please hear me out. Maybe I am not using teh correct words, but let me think as I write.. I was delighted by the mere fact that the professor attempted to present Lacan in a conversation/discourse as opposed to a hierarchial-based "lecture". Delighted, not at him but with him. He was quite a passionate fellow and sometimes came in his own way, but as a student who has been in school for 10 years, I can tell a good teacher from a bad one, and he was awesome. The students got him! Most were shy to show what they know... and this hasn't changed since I last went to school in India..
Understanding what Lacan has to say while in India.. this is an entire book in itself. I have no issues with Lacan. He has contributed to post modern feminism and came up with the "other". Unlike canada that i am familiar with, once you leave the premises of the physical boundary that marks academic life, and step into the streets, the disparity is obvious. The crowd, noise, state of being... is so loud that it tunes out any phenomenological thought you left the university with.
subjectivity! Indeed. At play in India.
i am in this universe tied to this multi dimensional epistemic leash.
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