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innovation in pre modern archittecture. INTRODUCTION An attempt to recontextualize
the concept and practice of ?innovation' in pre-modern Indian art. ...
Submitted by evilareve on May 30, 2006
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INTRODUCTION
An attempt to recontextualize the concept and practice of innovation' in
pre-modern Indian art.
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there is an analytical power in this narrative construction of power: it illuminates an aspect of things. Problems develop when one term of the metaphor power- becomes the dominant term, the master concept that absorbs everything into it. This metaphoric keying of human life and culture to power is not mere hoary Nietzscheism, vulgar Marxism, or fashionable Foucaultism, but a cultural legacy taken up again and again, the key term of a very Western mode of thought. Demystification achieves a kind of hegemony, replacing the richness and variety of cultural worlds with a monologue proclaiming that power, exhausting, monotonous power, is all there is."
This can be one severe criticism that maybe applied to my work. However, I am at a juncture of my studentship where I feel the need to grasp the tools with which to study the operation of power in pre-modern south Asian visual culture. This work is an articulation of the quest. However interspersed throughout the text are attempts to subvert the overarching importance of power in the narrative. Hope it works.
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When one attempts to engage in a project, which seeks to relocate/recontextualize notions of progress or innovation to a non Euro-American context, the project does get framed by the politics of representation, and threatens to get caught up in the Identity-Difference' questions. Though I do not wish to shy away from any engagement with the politics of representation, I definitely do not want to be caught up in the Identity- Difference' questions. The only option left for me is to bypass the rhetoric of the Self and Other, and refuse any parochial fixity of my subject position. This project could also get entangled in the politics of comparison. In a certain sense this is unavoidable, the best that I can do is to...
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