Digitization of experience: Have machines become more humane than humanity?

Digitization of experience: Origins in the power of media, information and data hiding 

As we know, mind tries to rationalize every experience and generate a united sense out of it. Everyman's mind exist in conjunction with its own past and a greater memory which may be called racial / collective. Hence we can say that our mind and body is conscious as long as they are able to unify experiences in a moment with its own vast set of memories. This act of unification of experiences happen in every piece of experience in every singular entity in space time. 

Digital devices and social interactions are worth investigation in relation with this. Digitization or digital technologies employ efficient and state of the art encoding of information. It can be information about a particular aspect of space, time, symbols, ideology and so on. Information from a continuous signal or experience is first quantized / discretized and then encoded as per our convenient processing rate as a preliminary state to digitization. This post does not aspire to go into the internals of the signal processing here.

Digital Ocra by Daniel Dionne on CreativeCommons

Instead, in this article we are interested to see how the digitized information influences the people who consume it.  When we engage with a digital data, we tend to think that data is the same as our continuous signal. It is the first and foremost significant difference. Digital data is not the same as the analogue / continuous signal. Hence it is highly customized / encoded and as a result highly ideological and influential. There is a relative limit to understanding condensed information. This cognitive capacity will be relative to each person and different cultures. When this limit is reached people tend to become subordinate to digital experiences and become just subservient consumers. From there onwards the discretion on taste / distaste, good/bad/ugly are lost. This can be termed as a decoding threshold. 

In addition to the data, the machine interfaces and interactions of digital world are highly customized for capturing human attention. This has a huge impact on the human cognition in the digital experience. Thus digital data and interfaces are highly customized and condensed to gain maximum attention span and focus from the consumers. And it will have repercussions on all the phases of digital experience. Thus data, velocity of data ( Like Twitter) , variety of data ( Like FaceBook ), value of data ( Like Newspaper) and veracity of data ( Government and popular media ) determines the decoding of digital experience.  If we visualize all these entities of data abstraction, data hiding and polymorphism on data it will render a complex information architecture. 

Digital Overload by Keoni Cabral on CreativeCommons

However, key factor is not in the differences between analogue and digital medium, rather the fact that people are not able to distinguish it while they experience them. People tend to spend hours in front of computers and video games confined in a single room. The same people may feel highly irritated on spending half an hour in the same room without a digital device or interaction even if there are some familiar people around. Has machines become more intimate to humans than their own genetic mates? Has machines acquired so much humanity than human beings themselves? This is a very unique situation where we are robbed of every sense and sensibility to distinguish real from illusionary. 

We term machines as dumb terminals. It is no more true. Nowadays, in communicative interactions, machines and digital devices are able to retain the human attention than a familiar human face. Thus human cognition and re-cognition is now highly controlled by the digital environment. But all is not lost for human sense and sensibility. The roots of the problem lies very much within us. We incite the addiction to digital devices and interaction in our social processes and education system itself. If we can devise a logical time slot for digital devices it is not going to take you away from your social life and social senses. Our human mind is still equipped with enough potential to rationalize digital experience as long as we prepare it upfront. Our brains no bounds when it comes to the complexity of neural nets and synaptic processing. We can still be humans!

MAOSTS AND MADHAV GADGIL

MAOISTS AND MADHAV GADGIL

MAOISTS AND MADHAV GADGIL ARE TWO ENDS AND TOOLS OF THE U.S. PROJECT OF ECO COLONIALISM. SOME HUNDRED YEARS BACK, IN THE NAME OF GOD THE OUT CASTES WERE DISCRIMINATED AND NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SACRED BY THE POWER CENTRE OF ECONOMY --- IT WAS DOMESTIC COLONIALISM IN WHICH THE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE MAJORITY WERE LIQUIDATED. AS THEY WERE DROWNED DOWN TO THE INFERNO OF EXISTENCE .THE SYSTEM WAS TERMED AYITHAM OR ASUDDHAM

NOW IN THE NAME OF ECO-SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT THERE EMERGES A VOICE--- VOICE OF NEO COLONIALISM :. DONT TOUCH AND POLLUTE ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS NOTHING BUT A REPETITION OF COLONIAL MARGINALISATION NOT IN THE NAME OF GOD.BUT IN THE HOLY NAME OF ENVIRONMENT IT IS THE POST MODERN BREED OF AYITTHAM .A THEOLOGY OF ECO WORSHIP IS GENERATED A ---POST MODERN SUPERSTITION GERMINATES FROM THE ECO-COLONIAL ECONOMY

SEE ,THE U.S.STARTED THE SATELLITE MAPPING IN INDIA REPRESSING THE PROTEST FROM THE DEFENCE DEPARTMENT AND SURVEYOR GENERAL OF INDIA. THE PRIME FOCUS OF U.S SATELLITE MAPPING WAS INDIAN FORESTS. FOR THEY HAD AN AXE TO GRIND WITH.INDIAN GHATS AND FORESTS. the satellite topographical mapping provides only signs on minute scale and large scale detailing of forest riches IS WORKED OUT AND PERIODICALLY UPDATED ON THE BASIS OF THE TOPOGRAPHICAL RESULT OF THE SATELLITE MAPPING. resource mapping programme, rapid rural appraisal etc are done as the follow up of satellite mapping(in larger scales)IN VILLAGES AND THE US -CORPORATE NEXUS SECRETES SURVEYING OF FORESTS BY DUBIOUS METHODS . why the u.s makes an aggressive mapping is a an issue of colonial political economy. THE GHATS AS WELL AS FORESTS ARE NOT ECOLOGY SENSITIVE BUT SENSITVE TO ECONOMY. ecology centred eco -colonialism hijacks the economic sensitivity of the forest riches and LAUNCHES A PROJECT TO EVICT THE UNTOUCHABLES, INDIAN HUMANS, WHETHER IT BE TRIBALS OR PEASANTS OR FARMERS

SURVEYING (HERE IN THE NAME OF ENVIRONMENT) IS A TOP NEO COLONIAL AGENDA AND BEHIND THE THE REPORT OF GADGIL AND RANGAN THERE LIES THE AGENDA OF SURVEYING AND DETAILING ON THE BASIS OF CARTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTS AT VARIOUS LEVELS

IN KERALA ,IN THE NAME OF MAO, SOME STRANGERS ARE BEHELD BY VILLAGERS. THEY ARE DOING SURVEY WORK FOR THEIR U.S. MASTERS. IT IS A CIA AGENDA AND THE COMMON MAN IS TERRORISED BY THE NAME MAO AND DRIVEN AWAY FROM THE HIRED SLAVES OF CIA WHO PERFORM DETAILING AND SURVEYING IN THE GHATS AND FOREST AREA. WHY THE MAOISTS AND GADGLIL BECOME UNIFIED CHORUS HAS ITS EXPLICIT REASON

PEOPLE IN GENERAL ARE IMPRESSED BY THE HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE BRED AND NURTURED BY BY THE POWER STRUCTURE OF ECONOMY. DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT ARE TWO MAJOR HEGEMONIC DISCOURSES PROPOGATED VIA NON GOVERMENTAL ORGANATIONS, AND THERE IS NOTHING EXTRA ORDINARY IN PEOPLE BEING SUBJUGATED TO THE HEGEMONIC DISCOURSES OF THE PERIOD

NOW FOR A DROP OF FUEL WE PRODUCE AADHAR AND EVERYBODY KNOWS AADHAR IS SURVEY MACHINERY FUNDED BY USAID

SUDHISH 

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OBSCENE 'USAID' INTERVENTION

OBSCENE 'USAID' INTERVENTION 

Is it not  open intimidation and disgusting,obscene political intervention in public by the police minister,asking the high profile police officer to withdraw his valid witness experience in the t.p.  murder case ? - the way the state influences the witness police officer by    intimidation that his head would be cut down if he said what he is convinced of?-not to disclose the irrepressible feeling  of the jail DIG that a conspiracy has been hatched by the government and media to penalize the innocent persons, in the T.P. MURDER CASE?

The facebook episode and the visit   of Fiaiz , a terrorist suspect in the jail having close links with the ruling politicians-- may be noted for the timing of those happenings— conspired just to  bring infamy  to leaders in the category of Mohanan master. The act of the minister expending force upon the police DIG to recant what he said and removing him from his post is most obscene political intervention in . it is shocking...an attempt to supress the shocking foul play, the concocted plot bred to cut the judiciary into pieces of stupidity and to befool the brain of common man raped by the stinking filth of media propaganda. 

 The statement of the DIG is the honest most revelation and the most authentic witness statement  from the high profile police official who is fully aware of the nasty plot concocted by the congress and its minister in collusion with the media houses purchased by the usaid – cia money.  It is not for the first time that a high profile police officer is dismissing the story of the cpm political vendetta coined by the stooges of USAID funding machinery.

 Earlier DIG Jacob Punnose said- it was a murder  for  personal reasons , the explicit suggestion is that it is not an action of political revenge. IT is the first authentic witness statement from the official side, which was struck down by  direct political  intervention of the police minister who had an ax to grind. The tongue and  teeth of the DGP ,   were plucked out by the police minister and the DGP under duress, with the broken jaws yelled and parroted the USAID bred media and the ugly ruling  politicians. The DGP and later  the DIG who  had convincing first hand knowledge about the secretions manipulated  to construct the story of CPM political vendetta in the  t.p. murder case  disclosed facts with intelligent suggestions, possible within the discipline of their uniform.

 The DIG was removed from his post but no disciplinary action was taken against him. If he violated discipline  taking sides with the criminals, as alleged, why no disciplinary action was taken against him? Actually the high profile police officers spoke the truth, that the story and plot of the cpm vendetta was an attempt to hijack the truth and save the real murderers behind the curtain ---the kith and kin of rmp- congress – extremist nexus. The immediate cause was finance dealings at the personal level but it is coiled in the secret political agenda later developed as weapon against  cpm; the propaganda as a whole was engineered by usaid, and all the media houses that barked in favour of the usaid agenda were heavily fed  with usaid cattle feed. There is no wonder in the appearance of a paradox  that while  the cpm leadership stripping of its political integrity runs down to the hell of betrayal for its share of the usaid feed, its comrades are persecuted tortured hunted and burnt to dust as in the case of CH Asokan. @Sudhish

A TALE OF TWO CONTRACTS

A tale of two contracts:

 Subjugation to finance colonialism

 

        Now, what is this ,comrade Pinarai vijayan, these   absurd jokes of  festivity over a petty judicial verdict?. The format and style of the celebrations deconstruct  the  memory of the ludicrous  past performed by the idiots honoured in the title of kings- and as the insensible waste of flowers, garlands, bands and drums pinnacled with the rusted frame  of a monarchic crown installed upon the skull of the leader-it is something mean --- inferior  even to a stupid political carnival. It is nothing loftier to the absurd pomp in the event management of an agitation, coined by the neo capitalist brain, the model of which is the wall street travesty or Anna and co mimicry. .Politicians clad in the dogmatic rhetoric of Marxism ,who chronicle the lived experience of pseudo leftist politics always love this hero worship and hype, for they are minds infected with sanity deficiency syndrome germinating from the  parliamentary lust or ugly zest for power.

.      See ,no  strain of  people's struggle, is a performance of financial luxury, as seen now in the street processions lead by the L.D.F.,that tread close to the decorative idiom of a hired event management. If the struggle touches the solar burns in the hearts of the people  it would smell  blood , sweat and tears of the suffering masses. It would never boom toward such a luxurious festivity and revelry .The issue is, that  our energy economy  is worsened further by the solar contract with the W.T.O. and the US companies.-- and Oochandy polluting parliamentary pseudo-morality is not a substance for reasonable agitation . It is only a  sub-human fraud inevitable in the context of finance colonialism. It is not the cause, but symptom of  rotting exemplifying carbuncular capitalist economy. It is the outcome of the self defeating signature of the central government in the dispensation of solar marketing . The magic of obscenity , and the triumphant black mailing by a woman behind the iron bars subjugating greater criminals in the ministerial berth  construct good substance for anti social film makers but these nasty side effects do not shape the cause that  worsen the poverty of energy economy.  The LDF does not have concern over the perils in our energy economy summoned by the solar energy deed executed by the central government and the World Trade Organization. The mimicry band  of the LDF is set to propagate  the libidinal content in the  Kerala solar fraud. Exciting ugly libidinal sensibility is a device of distraction ---- distraction from the serious menace imposed upon our daily bread of energy and so the LDF wont utter a single syllable that touches the international solar energy contract  that betrays the sanity of our political economy

    Back to the Lavalin litigation victory hysteria. The  feeling of elation and ecstasy performed by comrade Pinarai  (as he estimates Lavalin case as the greatest episode  and trial in his political life) is quite pitiable.As a party worker and committed comrade he had challenging experiences of  torturous struggles that he survived with commendable integrity. . It is part of history.. Those struggles he survived not with the backing of a  colony of lawyers who eat  finance in great quantum, who maintain invisible connections with the mighty ones who scribble fate of survival upon human skull.   The Lavalin  affair  was a contest of money power and despite its legal sanction exonerating the mischief, Lavalin contract has brought infamy to the CPM; for, not Pinarai but the central leadership is the culprit behind the curtain. Lavalin is not people's cause. it is the cause of CIDA. .Now the cat is out  and the fact that CIDA , the little cousin of CIA, is the actor behind the Lavalin plot has been established. The political instrument of NATO, a murderous weapon trader and the  wholesale dealer of genocides stepped into the energy sector of Kerala via Lavalin deal and for such a  suicidal political surrender,   CIDA fixed wages of  hundred crores under the banner of Thalasseri Cancer Centre; whether CIDA backed out from the fraud of promised contribution or whether somebody received slices of the bloody amount is still a myth----most irrelevant to the judiciary but most relevant in the context of subterranean financial terrorism leading towards fragmentation of  of our nation state

                        It was CIDA'S cause and not people's cause. As CIDA won the case and its cause , Pinarai nothing more than a medium in the wicked plot ,can have a sigh of relief but if  the CPM believes the wrong committed in the past can be reviewed and rectified , confess the political fact that Lavalin was a project of the CIDA, the development operation wing of CIA.  and apologise in public, for pursuing the contract with the Lavalin- CIDA combine, -- as in Lavalin you smell the blood of Che, Allen De and Pablo Neruda.

                   Back to solar--     The CPI(M) so far , has not raised a single print of voice about the central government's solar deal with the W.T.O. and the US government.. It is direct financial conquest of Indian solar space that has been accorded and conceded by the government. It is  , abject betrayal of the people's interests. The  LDF in its vocal aggressions against the solar fraud ,ignores the contract of betrayal signed by the central government. The CPM raises a fist  of violent utterance against actors and  actresses in the theatre of obscenity, emerging from the solar deal signed by the centre but it would not utter a single finger of word against the treaty of betrayal signed by the centre!! The CPM is bound to swallow its tongue when it comes to the W.T.O CONTRACT: Similarly the CPM would not utter a single word about the involvement of CIDA in the Lavalin deal...... No the CPM would never point its fingers against the interference  of colonial finance in Indian economy for they also receive wages for smuggling the material of finance capital into the  visceral space of Indian economy. The CPM would not confess its crimes . ; it would not apologise and rectify the crime of smuggling the finance routed through CIDAor WTO and it would enact a a drama of rectification just to entertain its  political hypocrisy and ideological demise

----s.sudhish

CIDA AND THE LAVALIN CONTRACT

CIDA and

the Lavalin contract

•  For whom does the bell tolls--?
•  for whom does the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a bribe of hundred crores ?
•  A bribe of hundred crores was offered to the Kerala government(?)  by CIDA and why? 

for Lavalin and Lavalin only

This means that Lavalin was sponsored by CIDA in the Kerala hydro electric sector, and for accepting the proposal CIDA offered finance of hundred crores to the parties concerned whether it be Karthikeyan or the central CPM leadership. The holy saint lavalin  maintains a division SNC tech which manufactures and trades weapons for NATO.

•  LAVALIN IS PROUD OF SUPPLYING MORTAL WEAPONS FOR THE SACRED PURPOSE OF MASSIVE KILLINGS IN AFGHAN AND IRAQ, 
•  LAVALIN IS A SUBORDINATE INSTRUMENT OF CIDA.

 The CBI court asserts that the offer of hundred crores under the banner of donation was issued by CIDA. WOULD COMRADE  PINARAYI EXPLAIN the role of CIDA in this business of hydroelectric engineering and comrade prakash karat swears in potent throat that CIDA IS A SUBORDINATE OF CIA. The central committee leaders of the CPM who directed Pinarayi to sign a contract with the CIA subordinate is guilty of a merciless political crime. 

Creating space for the CIA SUBORDINATE IN THE HYDROELECTRIC BUSINESS it was colonial financial intrusion in disguise. 

 Personal gain of Pinarayi in this business is nil but the political damage caused to the martyr history of the left, is fathom less. true if pinarai is grilled in this case for pure administrative damages manmohan and antony should be put in  prison for similar and greater vulgar crimes. Personal gain is a lesser crime but crime activated against the political history of the nation and the international  left movement is nothing less than  political treachery. 

It makes no difference. accepting finance from CIDA is nothing less than accepting finance from CIA  and the CPM accepted the offer and Pinarayi signed the contract over the promise of bloody CIA money and this is the way the financial managers of CIA, purchase the left.

S.Sudhish

What lies beneath the virtual reality in social media!

Technocracy and the hidden orders of randomness

Technology has become one of the dominant modes of market expansion in our days. As this intimate relation between technology and market is becoming more intense, technology is gradually endorsing many ideologies of market capitalism. One of the popular topics among the think tanks and ideologues of technology is the belief that technology is the means and end of life. This belief system happen to become an age old determinism in the material world which now takes the shape of technocracy. They believe that people are spending most of their time in the information spaces of virtual reality. This technocracy and the hypes of virtual reality has become the alter ego of the contemporary market determinism. 

What is the role of social media in developing a structure of virtual reality? Social media networks like Facebook and twitter prey on the human life by throwing fragments of social life into the personal lives of people. Out of sheer curiosity and instinct for gratifying their alienated social ego, people glue into the social media networks for hours. This momentary gratification for social living is exploited by social networks. Instead of social experience these virtual platforms convert information fragments from social space into breadcrumbs to amplify their personal ego. 

This is an interesting context. People become preys of alienation as they get integrated into the social modes of capitalist production. After the office hours when people connect to the social media, their urge for communication is exploited by social networks which create a virtual market space. Here people themselves become commoditized when fragments from life are extracted and distributed along with the market information.

Hence social media networks are nothing but markets where information fragments become the medium for exchanging market products and services. Same technocrats who propagate the absolute power of market now speak about the world of randomness and they are positing it as universal as relativity, quantum mechanics and evolution. On one side absolute belief in the fathomless wonders and abundant powers of market prevails and on the other the consience that the material world around us is random and non-linear gains momentum. They happen to be the digital edges of the same money chain. 

If we take a scan of the recent books and publications surrounding technology, we can see that randomness and chaos are gaining popularity among practitioners of science. Randomness is definitely can be seen in nature, its events and phases. Are they truly random? It is the key question. In every event that exhibit randomness, it is necessary part of an order, either within its boundaries or encircling it. 

If we consider the weather patterns as chaotic and random, they are evidently part of wider pattern of climate systems, seasons and the wind currents and so on. Insider every weather pattern such as rains, tidal fronts as so on, we can find elements of predictable models such as the shapes of rain drops, the fractal nature of tides etc. Hence every event of randomness and non linearity are part of the wider circles of orderliness and they themselves are constituted by orders events and natural laws. 

Now the question is why is someone so much concerned with the occurrences of randomness, if at all? Latent capitalism posits a culture where technology can make human conscience as subjective as possible. Technology and the portal of technology will determine what humans will think, how they behave and what they consume in the market. This technological determinism is not propagated by some crazy lunatic scientist, but by the forces who would like to see a world were human will decides how to live their life. When the role of human will is nullified by the constructs that deconstructs humaneness, people will shrink to fragments of social capital that produce, consume and reproduce mere chunks of data. 

Hence when technology fragments people in their thoughts, workplace and the market shops, their thoughts and desires become as subjective as it can be. When people see the world around with the fragmented conscience and self, the world becomes an ensemble of chaos and randomness. Observing world closely is never a crime. It becomes a futile exercise when we theorize it without connecting with the microcosmic entities and macro cosmic narratives.  We can welcome the experiments and mathematical constructs that help to extract randomness and non-linearity from previously static processes and phenomena. Those findings should be used for further systemic studies not for half baked theories and postulates which get instant popularity in the academic market place. It requires to connect mathematical methods with domain specific scientific frameworks.

Thus when social media becomes the medium for propagating the ideology of technocracy, non-linear physics become a popular construct to impose this belief system on the scientific community. 

REALITY ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL

Who killed Satnam singh?

THE PERSECUTED AND THE PERSECUTOR

           WHO KILLED  SATNAM SINGH , a North Indian youth, seeking spiritual asylum in Kerala , turning violent, charged with murder attempt for an alleged act of assault upon a potential dollar deity--  is a puzzle that cannot be solved by any astro-divine male or female god that betrays human frame;  Perhaps he sought solace for  his perturbed soul and nursed some misapprehension that some deity performing rituals of  grand spiritual industry would diffuse his angst.. he was mistaken and in a moment  of disgust and violence his cerebral sanity collapsed. The gods terrestrial and their goons fell upon him and the ministerial don of the political absurd rushed to the spot to administer the feast of terror unleashed upon him.  On charges of murder attempt, he was taken  into police custody and as he was mortally  struck by the compassionate philistine  demigods  he was taken to a district government hospital; As he was crushed down  by the wrath of the superhuman deity the doctors refused to attend him or nurse him .  His body being a  medical reject  was dragged on to a government mental hospital where he was found dead, while he was in police custody.It was a custodial death and who is the custodian  of death sitting upon the buffalo's back with the rope and ministerial wand? The police minister tells you that he was killed by the psychotics in the mental hospital. Whether it be true or not, a genuine question arises; who is the actual  neurotic or psychotic?  The persecutor or the persecuted? Are we a society infected with neurosis or psychosis  breeding and nurturing  deities  that  feed upon the filth of foreign dollars that upset the economy of our psychic equilibrium? Who is the murderer ? Yes, the murderer is the custodian of law who rushed to the spot to administer the terror of social psychosis germinating from power mania---it is  an act of cruelty administered by a  power maniac- society. Say ,there is nothing genuine in the feeling of guilt or the dread of crime  for  the postmodern scoundrels tell you that we are living in virtual reality and the question of genuine feeling does not arise--- thus spake Baudrillad  and it is the most unhygienic voice of the persecutor race  

Poem: Fire and ashes will not wait for scavengers

They are born in the mettle of scavengers
They have learned the puppet art by licking their skulls
They have learned to mint their spine for wreched gold
They have watched the fire burning minds and words
They have waited enough to encash the burden of guilt
They have waited enough to peel away the nascent flowers
They have vaulted enough secret to hide the fire and ashes
They are born to the senile days of fertile lands and fertile days of senile lands
They have submitted their longer tongue to the goddess of silence and sickness

Fire and ashes will not wait for scavengers
Fire and ashes will not burn the plastic wealth of plastic bowls
Fire and ashes will not be born into the termites of paperworms
Fire and ashes will not spit on the holy vessels of their greedy lips
Fire and ashes will ignite their sweat and soils whoever they are, whatever they do

Media as a finance instrument [three] : T.P.Chandrasekharan muder

T.P. Chandrasekharan murder:  

The persecutors and the persecuted 

Now as Mullappally Ramachandran ,the Central Subordinate Minister for internal security of the nation releases an  utterance  ,that  the role of Fias, terrorist suspect,  gold trader and smuggler in T.P. Chandrasekharan  murder , may be enquired into, the assumption, that the murder was enacted to please the finance managers of terrorism gains administrative approval.   The persons receiving money, for spreading acts of terrorism in the name of Islam in Kerala may be constrained to perform some terrorist events just to impress their masters ,that they are doing the job entrusted with them and funds may be released further for the performance of terrorist activities.  Killing of T.P. was not a simple murder but an item of event management subscribed to terrorism, and the media celebrated it as a major event.

 Hon’ble Chief whip of the ruling front Shri P.C.George.  a person executing the power of an officer in the cabinet minister rank,  entertains the mass with the most penetrating peeps into the fallacy of political truth .He issued a statement that Fias the smuggler and trader of gold has been maintaining terrorist links. It  is a statement from the governmental side and if the government itself are pleased to feel that the person maintains terrorist links, the Central Subordinate Minister for home will have to take action at the territorial  power line of the central government. Mr. Mullappally Ramachandran will have to act because the theme of terrorism is not a crime to be dealt with the state government  but with the central government. He does not act ,instead makes a public exhortation in violation of the constitutional oath and responsibility that the activities of Fias may be brought under investigation. Yes the activities of a terrorist suspect-(as certified by the governmental office of the Chief whip--) shall be investigated by a central agency under the ministry of  Mr Mullappally either by CIB or NIA  and Mr minister at the centre cannot escape from the official responsibility assigned to him as the minister. The preliminary administrative responsibility of  the central home minister is to provide the people with the sense of security and not worsening the anxiety and irrational apprehensions of the people with toothless spineless statements .If the minister feels there is involvement of terrorist element in T. P. murder, he should serve his constitutional responsibilities with utmost seriousness. he should act;

 The political persecution of Mohanan master exceeds all limits of cruelty as the media  generates another vicious propaganda against him on his suspected links with Fias. The media managers who played a dominant role in constructing the fallacy of the CPM involvement in the murder  are losing their ground, and just to maintain the notion of CPM conspiracy in the murder they want at least one victim of Mohanan's leadership level and the procedure of persecution and its festive brutality. still  persist to insult the blood of the innocent. The latest evidence is that of a telephone talk of one and a half mts duration between the terrorist suspect and Mohanan master. For the vulgar media it is a rocking  news. whereas the telephone contact of Fias with the Chief minister's private chief officer is not at all a breaking news Fias was a local person of Mohanan master and . as the CPM leaders maintain pleasant relations with the affluent class--- may be a symptom of political deterioration inevitable-- the chances of any such contact can’t be ruled out. But it makes no point of evidence to the  level that Mohan master knew Fias’ suspected links with the terrorists.  The argument is void. If  telephone talk with a criminal at  the other end,   is a criminal act, the Kerala Chief Minister,  Home Minister and the entire cabinet may be put in jail several times. Definitely the connection between  Mohanan master, the persecuted, and Fias the terrorist suspect, may be investigated, as one may find scope for investigation in Jesus' contact with Barabas as desired by  Caiphus and co.. 

But other questions remain:

1. In the event management of terrorism, Marxist extremists, communist dissidents and the so called Islamic terrorists are allies.

2. CPIM (liberation) is a political organization with a history of terrorism .T.P.’s party maintained and still maintains some close links with the Liberation which on the other side maintains links with the Islamic-ngo extremism

3  The evidence to prove the friendship between the terrorist suspect and the CPM leader is scanty . At the same time we have substantial photographic  and telephonic evidence to the grand relationship between E. Ahmed--- Mullappally’s colleague  Muslim league leaders, chief ministers’ office,   DCC and state level leaders of congress ;why can't some among these be the men behind the terrorist murder?

4  The links are all open . but there is one hidden connections between the investigating officer of T.P. murder case and the terrorist suspect  ; the prosecution  objects even to  the examination  of  the telephone diary of the  investigating officer: WHY SIR , OBJECTION TO THE REVELATION OF FACTS ALLIED TO A TERRORIST MURDER WHEN   POLICE OFFICERS, MINISTERS OR CONGRESSMEN ARE AT THE RECEIVING END?

5  An investigation that does justice to the people’s right to security may prove  that the persecutors and not the persecuted  are the villains behind the terrorist murder

6 whether Fias be terrorist or not, whether Fias be involved in the murder or not, the execution of T.P. murder is a terrorist act, and the force behind  is  the foreign criminal finance  

S.Sudhish

          

Discourses of Disguise: Unmasking the post-colonial project

MN Vijayan Remembrance 2013

Keynote speech - S.Sudhish

Domestic Colonialism and Imperial Colonialism

Domestic colonialism? the term may sound a bit odd for most of us who are familiar with the imperial origins and expansion of colonialism in the ages of British empire in India. This is not an oxymoron but a key finding by Lenin in his studies on colonial questions.

Perhaps Lenin gave the best elaboration of the Colonial Question. Internationally, he critiqued the relations between oppressor and oppressed nations as closely related to the relations between classes within nations. ( http://sdonline.org/55/toward-a-new-theory-of-internal-colonialism1/ )

Thus Lenin highlights the fact that while studying the national and colonial questions, the underlying class dynamics should not be forgotten. Colonization has been a development in the political economy of nations when imperialism achieved certain level of complex statecraft in the age of industrial capital. In the ages of feudalism and the days of monarchy, empires did not consist of remote or peripheral colonies. Empire signified the power for territorial expansionism and famous victories. The empires of Alexander, Genghis Khan and their likes were symbols of military wins across continents and seas. Later when the empires could amass and control significant amount of industrial capital they began to control the functions and political economy of the nations which they defeated. Thus the colonial nation states emerged. This was the colonialism from the above, or the imperialism. At the same time, as Lenin noted above, colonialism could exist within a nation state itself. The section of people with political and economic might within a nation state can exert power and exploit others. Caste system in India and the Apartheid suffered by African Americans are the good evidence for this.

Thus nationalism and a nation state as it is can be a site for domestic colonialism. The case of America in the time for British empire is a direct case for this. United States of America had a substantial native population when immigrants from Britain settled and occupied the land. When the British immigrants were fighting against the British empire, it was not based on any racial reasons. The reason was purely political and economic. The same immigrants were engaged in a fight with the natives at the same time. Thus the freedom fighters of America against British empire were colonizing the natives domestically. Thus U.S.A becomes a converging site of imperial and domestic colonialism.

Thus the thesis of domestic colonialism paved a way to a wider understanding of the Marxian analysis of a nation state within the class concept. 'Internationalism' was proposed as the outlook for the proletariat across the nations. Working class worldwide was urged to unite internationally. This view was actively supported by communist international ( Comintern) as well. 

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Now domestic colonialism is no more heard in the research pursuits on the colonial question. Instead, the term 'Post-colonialism' has become the buzzword. In his famous work 'The Wretched Earth' Frantz Fanon deconstructed colonial question as a kind of oppressive effect and the residual effect of colonial hegemony. In 1978, when Edward Said published 'Eurocentrism' it reduced colonial question to a contradiction between the western imperialism and the oriental societies. After this, the thesis of post-colonialism emerged popular among academic circles and intelligentia. 

Thus the original thesis of domestic colonialism became largely unmasked and deconstructed in the inventiveness of post colonial narratives. In addition, post colonial studies could help the academic circles to sleep over the rising instances of neocolonialism using finance capital and the thesis of fragmentation of nation states. When post-colonial academicians like Homi Bhabha and Gayathri Chakravarthi Spivak continue to hunt the demigods of western imperial vestiges in the darkness of history, imperially funded NGO agencies and terrorist cells are tearing away every single site of political economy in the nation states. Thus post-colonialist thesis has become the dual mask to hide the residues of domestic colonialism and the intruding forces of neocolonialist finance capital, both eating away the political economy and the social fabric of nation states world wide.

Additional Notes:

• Domestic and imperial colonialism: The dynamics of imperial colonialism - the contradiction between center and periphery. What about domestic colonialism? every nation will have center and periphery. 
• Internationalism becomes the alternative to the nationalist ideology which confines the working class to the interests of the dominant class.
• Episodes of American freedom struggle are one of the early historic sites for the contradiction between domestic colonialism and imperialist colonialism. Natives stood with British empire against American immigrant colonizers. Exploitation is the centripetal force to the domestic colonialism. 
• Kerala caste hierarchy and the associated social fabric is another site of domestic colonialism. Indulekha as a site of contradiction of domestic colonialism. During freedom struggle, domestic colonialism becomes subdued. Saraswathivijayam in 1890 as a site of domestic colonialism. Caste as a dominant discourse in Saraswathivijayam. 
• In the age of neocolonialism, domestic colonialism becomes a convenience. 
• Internationalism as an opposition to domestic colonialism.