19 found
Order:
  1.  83
    Searching for the Present, Where? Being-becoming in Akbar Padamsee's Figurations (1995-2006).Srajana Kaikini - 2023 - Mumbai: The Guild.
    This research essay was published in the monograph dedicated to the first major exhibition dedicated to photography and drawings by theAkbar Padamsee in India after his demise early 2022 at the age of 91. “Searching for the present, where?...” is drawn from The Guild and some important private collections. The exhibition is a tribute to Padamsee’s commendable contribution to the Indian art. This is also the first time the photographs and drawings spanning from over a decade are contextualised in an (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  2.  88
    Face: An Insufficient Technology of the Subject.Srajana Kaikini - 2024 - Sambhāṣaṇ 4 (3):19-33.
    In this paper, I explore the philosophical apprehension of the face through art history in order to signal a moment of rupture in the contemporary times of the face and its signifying relationship to the subject. Drawing from Francis Galton’s nineteenth century photographic experiments on analytical portraiture, one sees how the face when conceived as an atlas, functions very differently for the subject and its recognition than when understood as a mere image. With the advent of futuristic technology like AI (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  3. The Return of the Translator : from the edge of meaning to the edge of sense.Srajana Kaikini - 2017 - In Marianna Maruyama, Kunstlicht Special Issue : Translation as Method. pp. 10 - 25.
    "Translation, as with any practice, is something to return to again and again. Opening this issue, curator and poet Srajana Kaikini’s multi-layered article, ‘The Return of the Translator’ underlines the relevance of translation as a critical process, available to anyone, in any field. Bringing in references to philosopher Sundar Sarukkai, poet Gangadhar Chittal, and Buddhist philosophical principles, she locates the place of translation. Kaikini looks closely at the ways “language and the world are in strange relation with each other,” to (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  4.  67
    The Body and the Possibility of an Ethical Experience of Education: A Perspective from South Asia.Srajana Kaikini - 2022 - In Anja Kraus & Christoph Wulf, The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning. Switzerland: Springer Nature. pp. 577-598.
    Philosophical traditions from South Asia conceptualised mind and body as integral entities. Embodiment of the mind as a body-mind, articulated as a sensing, thinking and acting body, is conceptually distinct from the mind-body dualism within the Cartesian framework. The case of India is further complicated from its twofold colonial heritage—British colonialism and a longstanding internal colonialism perpetuated through social categories such as caste, gender and class. Educational philosophers and social reformers such as J Krishnamurti, M K Gandhi and Savitribai and (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5. Expanding the Duty to Rescue to Climate Migration.David N. Hoffman, Anne Zimmerman, Camille Castelyn & Srajana Kaikini - 2022 - Voices in Bioethics 8.
    Photo by Jonathan Ford on Unsplash ABSTRACT Since 2008, an average of twenty million people per year have been displaced by weather events. Climate migration creates a special setting for a duty to rescue. A duty to rescue is a moral rather than legal duty and imposes on a bystander to take an active role in preventing serious harm to someone else. This paper analyzes the idea of expanding a duty to rescue to climate migration. We address who should have (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  6. Curating Interdisciplinarity in Literature-Art: a Review of Mukhaputa.Srajana Kaikini - 2018 - Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 10 (2):251 - 259.
    This is a philosophical review of the exhibition dedicated to Literature – Art titled Mukhaputa (Cover page) held on occasion of the Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform 2017 in Manipal, India. The curatorial strategy of the exhibition explores the intersectional relationships between literature and visual arts at large. The context of this critical review is the recent past of modern literature journals in print that encouraged artists and illustrators to converse with literature and in turn poets and authors to (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7. The Necessity of Understanding Disasters in the Language of Suffering.Srajana Kaikini - 2020 - Voices in Bioethics 6.
    The categorization of disasters as natural or manmade does little for our understanding of the moral stakes of institutions and collectives involved in the aftermath of disasters. This paper presents a brief account of how disasters can be understood philosophically taking cues from studies in sociology. Having articulated the gap in conceptualizing disasters, the paper argues that an interpretation of disasters as “events of social suffering,” will help foreground the complex moral and phenomenological nature of such events to prompt a (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8. Art in the time of Disease.Srajana Kaikini - 2014 - Journal for Cancer Research and Therapeutics 10 (1):229 -231.
    An invited editorial on the depiction of disease in art history which would then become the symbol of this redemptive philosophy.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  9. Notes from Inside the COVID-19 Museum : A satirical soliloquy.Srajana Kaikini - 2020 - Barefoot Philosophers.
    "We are curious about our social behavior in a post COVID-19 future. A future where the social can’t be taken for granted; a future where we humans hope to reclaim some sense of control over the world currently ruled by a virus.".
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  10. Everyone, an artist. On the prospect of an interwoven arts pedagogy.Srajana Kaikini - 2019 - Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Blog.
    Discourses in curatorial practice have seen several turns, the educational turn being a prominent one. While arts practices and curatorial practices interweave implicitly, intersections between curation and education are new on the horizon. In this guest post for Inlaks, Srajana Kaikini contemplates the possibilities of an evolving education system. Srajana Kaikini was the 2019 International Studio & Curatorial Program - Inlaks Grant recipient.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  11.  79
    Resonance in Dhvani Aesthetics and the Deleuzian Logic of Sensation.Srajana Kaikini - 2018 - Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 12 (1):29-44.
    This paper undertakes an intersectional reading of visual art through theories of literary interpretation in Sanskrit poetics in close reading with Deleuze's notions of sensation. The concept of Dhvani – the Indian theory of suggestion which can be translated as resonance, as explored in the Rasa – Dhvani aesthetics offers key insights into understanding the mode in which sensation as discussed by Deleuze operates throughout his reflections on Francis Bacon's and Cézanne's works. The paper constructs a comparative framework to review (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  12.  24
    Editorial: A New Card - Introducing SciPhi Web.Srajana Kaikini - 2020 - SciPhi Web Repository of Reflections in Science, Philosophy and Gaming.
    These are unprecedented times for most of us. A pandemic having brought life to a standstill across the world, now is that rare historical moment where most of us across the world are given a universal condition, in some way, to come together. In this Kafkaesque world, SciPhiWeb opens its doors to you. Given the several unforeseen, unrealistic and unfathomable kinds of experiences many across the globe are having, the question of philosophy and its dire needs in such times is (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  13. The Arrangement of Objects. An Ontology of Contemporary Curatorial Practice.Srajana Kaikini - 2019 - Dissertation, Manipal University
    This doctoral thesis is a philosophical investigation of the concept of curation. This research hinges its research problem of objects and relations around the hypothesis of “arrangement of objects” as the foundational premise for the study of curatorial practice. This problem of objects and relations is articulated through its how and what in the context of Arrangement of Objects in order to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the concept of curating.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  14. (1 other version)The Aesthetics of Risk in Artistic Practice: What is at Stake?Srajana Kaikini - 2020 - Kunstlicht 41 (4):44-53.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  15. The Convalescent's Diary. Art and its Possibilities in Psycho-Oncological Health.Srajana Kaikini - 2016 - In The Convalescent's Diary and its Possibilities in Psycho-Oncological Health. Delhi: pp. 92-98.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16. The Convalescent's Diary and its Possibilities in Psycho-Oncological Health.Srajana Kaikini - 2016 - In Varsha Dutta, The Unquiet Mind. Cancer: The Metaethical Quanderies of Therapies. Delhi: Narosa. pp. 9.1-9.8.
    This Chapter Explores the the facets of Convalescence and its relation with Creative life in an attempt to seek windows into palliative care in Oncology through art.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17.  86
    Book Review: Nicolle Zapien and Susi Ferrarelo. Ethical Experience: A Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury 2019. 256 pp. [REVIEW]Srajana Kaikini - 2023 - Ethical Perspectives 29 (3):394-397.
    This book discusses the ethics of engaging with the paradigm of lived experience, particularly through an interest in the spatiotemporal constructs of such experiences via a comparative conceptual map across Husserlian phenomenology and Nishida’s moral philosophy. The overall commitment of the book is towards the vision of a ‘better life’ through insights into two themes, that of time and intimacy.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18. Book Review: Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. [REVIEW]Srajana Kaikini - 2018 - Ethical Perspectives 25 (3):571-575.
    Does the ethic of curating lean towards the objects of curation or the subjects of curation? In a simpler vocabulary, is the curator’s ethics guided towards the artists or the art works? Maura Reilly’s book Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, is a welcome opening into the ethical facets of curating focused on the subject, based primarily on identity politics of the artist.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19.  64
    Book Review: Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. [REVIEW]Srajana Kaikini - 2020 - Journal of Sociology 58 (2):NP1-NP5.
    Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai’s work explores the nature of the ‘everyday social’ focusing on the particular experience of caste as a problematic ‘social’ peculiar to India. This philosophical archaeology of caste as a concept offers ways for radical cri- tique. In being ‘more interested in finding appropriate ways of talking about the social in Asia and Africa’ (p. 15) as opposed to the ‘West’, the authors strive to address the crises of displaced concepts and contexts in philosophical thinking by (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark