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Author: Ganguly, Debjani
Subjects: *DRONE warfare, *POSTHUMANISM, *HUMANITY, *AESTHETICS, *DECISION making
Abstract: What does it mean for humanity to inhabit a techno-planetary system in which it is not central? This essay will address a facet of this question by exploring the aesthetics of drone warfare. The drone features in my reading as a metonym for a techno-human continuum in which the human as an autonomous subject with interiority and capacity for ethical action appears as eminently dispensable. Aesthetic forms not only are informed by but also shape a mode of perception by means of which we apprehend the world. What happens to such apprehension when both the mode of perception and subjecthood defy human-centered assumptions about aesthetic form? How does one novelize the scalar complexity of distributed vision beyond the human? When decisions about life and death are ceded to a machinic vision, do questions of moral agency and responsibility recede into a posthuman realm or do they gain even more urgency? The essay pivots around questions such as these. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2023
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Author: Ponzanesi, Sandra, Ganguly, Debjani, LS Gender and Postcolonial Studies, and ICON - Gender Studies
Subjects: Cultural industry, culture industry, Economy, world literature, Taverne, postcolonialism, Business, cosmopolitanism, migration, digital media
Abstract: This chapter addresses the dynamics of world literature from a postcolonial angle, integrating the role of the cultural industry in the dynamics of literature across borders. It focuses on the role of texts in reshaping cosmopolitan imaginaries, accounting for the tension between commercialization and the politics of resistance. In particular, the chapter addresses the role of digital technologies in articulating the worldliness of literature not just through circulation and reception but also through new narrative strategies and tropes that open up new scenarios for thinking and imagining migration beyond the limits of borders and geography. It takes as case studies Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah (2013), in which blogging is used as a form of advocacy, Hamid Mohsin’s Exit/West, which introduces the expedient of magic doors as portals to overcome the sense of stuckness of migration, and the poems of Warson Shire, who emerges as a prominent new Instapoet capable of cutting across audiences, generations and media platforms.
Published: 2021

Author: Ganguly, Debjani
Subjects: Anglo-Indians -- Social aspects, Globalization -- Analysis, Postcolonialism -- Analysis, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Abstract: The theoretical templates of globalization and postcolonialism are studied by determining late modern Anglo-Indian lifeworlds in Australia. It is suggested that postcolonialism cannot be moved aside as outdated or a branch of globalization but it is a difficult problem facing theorizations of late modernity.
Published: 2007

Author: Sen, Rudra, primary, Mukhopadhyay, Rajarshi, additional, Sutradhar, Ashoke, additional, Ganguly, Debjani, additional, and Chattopadhyay, Paramita, additional
Published: 2019
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Author: Ganguly, Debjani, Curthoys, Ned, Ganguly, Debjani, and Curthoys, Ned
Subjects: Intellectuals--United States--20th century, Intellectuals--United States--21st century, Critics--United States--20th century, Critics--United States--21st century
Abstract: This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said.Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre. Exciting new scholarship highlights the ways in which humanities in the twenty-first century can engage with Said's legacy, which includes his imbrications of culture and imperialism, his cosmopolitan critique of the idea of'clash of civilisations', and his belief that the intellectual needs to maintain'intellectual performances'on many fronts.The individual chapters achieve a sense of balance between the two poles of Said's persona: the brilliant and intimidating literary and music critic who invested deeply in an inclusive and democratic vision of humanism and the outspoken public intellectual who kept alive the truth of Palestine and the dangers of a settler colonial ethos.
Published: 2015

Author: Ganguly, Debjani
Subjects: KRISHNA (Hindu deity)
Abstract: These verses refer to the sublime form, "Vishwarupa", Lord Krishna takes in the Bhagavad Gita when he reveals his divine nature to the warrior prince, Arjuna. "Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds" - the Bhagavad Gita explained The Bhagavad Gita dramatises a meditative exchange between Arjuna and Lord Krishna, who appears as his charioteer during the momentous battle between two clans, the Pandavas and the Kauravas. [Extracted from the article]
Published: 2023