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Some thoughts on the ‘(extra)ordinary’ : on philosophy, coloniality and being other-wise
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Nayar, Jayan (2017) Some thoughts on the ‘(extra)ordinary’ : on philosophy, coloniality and being other-wise. Alternatives : global, local, political, 42 (1). pp. 3-25. doi:10.1177/0304375417717171 ISSN 0304-3754 .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375417717171
Abstract
In this essay, I question the philosophical appropriation of the “street”; much recent critical theory fixes on the “events” of the street as portending ruptural becomings—into being—of the new in the world. I argue that such readings of the “extraordinary” are founded upon a heroic ontologic–epistemology of “abandonment–resurrection” that defines colonial–modern Eurocentric philosophy. Against this preoccupation with the extraordinary, I present a view that reads in the events of the street the ordinariness of the perceived extraordinary and the extraordinariness of the (often invisible) ordinary decoloniality of the everyday as the site of already being otherwise.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Other (Philosophy), Postcolonialism -- Philosophy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Alternatives : global, local, political | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0304-3754 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-25 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0304375417717171 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 June 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 January 2018 |
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