The Transcendental Subaltern

Slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism.

This article is an intervention in the epistemologies and methodologies of urban studies. It seeks to understand and transform the ways in which the cities of the global South are studied and represented in urban research, and to some extent in popular discourse. As such, the article is primarily concerned with a formation of ideas - "subaltern urbanism" - which undertakes the theorization of t...

Playing Subaltern: Videogames and Postcolonialism

The postcolonial has still remained on the margins of Game Studies, which has now incorporated at length, contemporary debates of race, gender and other areas that challenge the canon. It is difficult to believe, however, that postcolonial ideas do not influence the way in which videogames are perceived; the effect, it can be argued, is often subtle. For the millions of Indian gamers, it is a m...

The foundations of knowledge in transcendental philosophy

  The relation among the three elements of knowledge is considered as an important issue in epistemology. Mollasadra introduced the relation between knowledge and object-known in mental existence and upon his own principals of philosophy believed that the essence of knowledge is the occurring of quiddity and the nature of external object in mind. Knowledge is a kind of existence, which within ...

Transcendental Elitism

The Transcendental Character of Determinism

DETERMINISM in philosophical discussions of determinism I believe it is fair to say that there is not ordinarily a sharp separation of a process being deterministic and a process being predictable. Much of the philosophical talk about determinism proceeds as if it is understood that a deterministic process is necessarily predictable. Here is a typical quotation, taken from A. J. Ayer's essay " ...