This paper aims to desublimate the Kantian sublime starting with mitigation of enthusiasm which some French philosophers have woven its praise. Contrary what Lyotard and Deleuze argue in their works, Analytics Sublime Kant does not go beyond himself, nor it is hard set up a philosophy subject after reading these pages. Sublime, for two clever readers Kant, any excessive use faculties. But less ...

The Fallist movement in South Africa, among other points, called into question the relevance of maintaining aspects colonial heritage, especially as they relate to knowledge construction at African higher education institutions. issues transformation and decolonisation also came limelight with some students calling for decolonisation/Africanisation science a system knowledge, hence #ScienceMust...

The following text aims to pose the question provoked by of discrepancy between infancy as defined in work Jean-Francois Lyotard and childhood per se, do so epochal context an educational temporality governed attributes acceleration, “profitable,” knowledge, cognitivism, rampant inequalities, ethos “success” at any cost, a univocal relationship knowledge utilitarianism, severe conflict egalitar...

The characterisation of Derrida’s politics as a seeking for the “lesser violence” has become an almost paradigmatic interpretation. Yet phrase la moindre violence appears only in early essay “Violence and Metaphysics” its meaning is not straightforward might initially seem. I will argue that it mistake to take this expression summarise political import let alone deconstruction more generally. W...

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Introduction In his 1986 treatise entitled The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard famously describes postmodernity as an incredulity toward metanarratives. This description illustrates the kind of fetishism with which cultural studies theorists have always latched onto buzzwords. But it is the telling subtitle of this same book A Report on Knowledge that hints at some of the shared con...

The 'breakthrough' motif today serves as one of the most pervasive temporal abstractions for describing key events in science and medicine. Of late, it has come to refer to commemorative moments including the introduction of signify unequivocal disjunctures in the overall temporal shape of innovation and science, designating all the major 'steps forward' of grand progress narratives (Lyotard, 1...

In this paper I attempt to answer the question: What is interdisciplinary communication? I attempt to answer this question, rather than what some might consider the ontologically prior question—what is interdisciplinarity (ID)?—for two reasons: (1) there is no generally agreed-upon definition of ID; and (2) one’s views regarding interdisciplinary communication have a normative relationship with...