Posts Categorized: Autoethnography

SRK & his Others (Or, Killfies: Killing in the Name of the Self)

By Tripta Chandola, May 20, 2024

SRK & his Others (Or, Killfies: Killing in the Name of the Self) [in which I make an argument to reject working-classes’s “subaltern” qualifications to call him a comrade already]   Here, as pdf, easier & prettier to read, SRK & his Others (Or, Killfies_ Killing in the Name of the Self) presented @“Understanding Digital Worlds” organized [...]

+outcomes = An Autoethnography of Savarna Lifeworlds & The portrait of a Madwoman as a Poet.

By Tripta Chandola, May 1, 2024

+outcomes = An Autoethnography of Savarna Lifeworlds & The portrait of a Madwoman as a Poet.  In this auto-ethnographic account, revealing all of myself, leaving no crevice, corner or cemetery of the self hidden, or leaving anything to imagination, the aim is to expose the visceral, philosophical, political & poetic violence the mere presence of [...]

_methodology+literature review = Political is the Personal; the Personal is Always & Only Poetic 

By Tripta Chandola, May 1, 2024

_methodology+literature review = Political is the Personal; the Personal is Always & Only Poetic  Whilst Zizek is my guide, the Master in these equations, to institute LpA (listening as philosophy in action) towards Rf (revolutionary futures), who empowers & enables me to even attempt seeking redemption from my brutal savage pasts, it was is not [...]

_statement of purpose + statement of originality = Roadmaps to Revolutions + Formula for Revolution (or, a plea to seek redemption from my savage pasts)

By Tripta Chandola, May 1, 2024

_statement of purpose + statement of originality = Roadmaps to Revolutions + Formula for Revolution (or, a plea to seek redemption from my savage pasts) If philosophy is “class struggle in action the field of theory”, listening as philosophy in action in the same fields, is the proposition that this report aims to qualify to [...]

A Listener’’s References: Houndtracks (H(er)+(S)oundtracks) 

By Tripta Chandola, May 1, 2024

A Listener’’s References: Houndtracks (H(er)+(S)oundtracks)  Mornings Sun’s seductions & moon’s delight-revolutionary lovings Soundtrack the sonic stock taking of the lovers demolished and selves rehabilitated Nagma ka castle in the sky Mounting Mornings Managing Mania Zizek to Zero – an exploration Pervert’s Guide to Slumming  

Listening as Philosophy in Action: A Poetic Presentation

By Tripta Chandola, May 1, 2024

Listening as Philosophy in Action: A Poetic Presentation  as pdf, here, chandola_Listening as Philosophy in Action_ A Poetic Presentation   _statement of purpose + statement of originality = Roadmaps to Revolutions + Formula for Revolution (or, a plea to seek redemption from my savage pasts) If philosophy is “class struggle in action the field of theory”, [...]

(table of content) Listening as Philosophy in Action: A Poetic Presentation

By Tripta Chandola, May 1, 2024

 title = Listening as Philosophy in Action: A Poetic Presentation  total+complete, as pdf, here, chandola_Listening as Philosophy in Action_ A Poetic Presentation _statement of purpose + statement of originality = Roadmaps to Revolutions + Formula for Revolution (or, a plea to seek redemption from my savage pasts) _methodology +literature review = Political is the Personal; [...]

Poppat as the portrait of an ‘ideal’ poor man.

By Tripta Chandola, February 23, 2016

Poppat, a man of indeterminate age, is a mentally challenged beggar and has spent the last 40 years of his life ‘beneath the famous chhatris dedicated to valiant Rajput warriors of Kutch’. Despite his predicament of lacking fundamental faculties he never ‘forgets to pay’ for the tea he is offered at the temple. He is [...]

Courage as Virtue: Corrections as Courage

By Tripta Chandola, February 23, 2016

Over the last few weeks, I have been reviewing what I have written and thinking about what I want to write, here and elsewhere, with a growing sense of despair. The writing was burdened with tired affectations, performative interjections and trite insights.