SynTalk

Does the Indonesian (?) in you love idlis? Are we all (universal) human beings? But, does society narrow our experience of the world? Must we then be spatiotemporally-bound? But, do universal ideas also come from situatedness? Is local, however, also always hybrid? How is a universal regionalized in architecture or literature? What is decidedly local – a consciousness? Does local see itself as hybrid? Is the self-image of your community locally constructed? Does connected mean homogenized? Can the local be fully evacuated? What is your style of experiencing the world? How can you experience darshana? Does being attuned to the local memories potentially make the new more recognizable? How do we resolve disputes? Does Sartre have a Kannada version? Do we need history to live in the world? Is the eye always more patient with an alien image than the ear is with an alien sound? Are buildings a part of the linguistic culture? Can buildings then be thought of a la language? Are buildings always glocal? How can a city be conceived? Is globalization generic? Is the future less generic? How will we produce ourselves? Would Being continue shifting…? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from sociology & Kannada literature (Prof. Chandan Gowda, Azim Premji University, Bangalore), & architecture (Prof. Vikramāditya Prakāsh, University of Washington, Seattle). Listen in....