another org(illa)

IDA

hermeneutics and archeology

Hermeneutics tries to find what meaning lives beneath the sentences that have been written, if not by God, at least by the past. We are to relive the past to see what can have been meant. Archeology is quite the opposite; it wants not to interpret the texts but to display the relationships between the sentences that explain why just these were uttered and others were not. (Hacking, 93)

chapter inklings

QUES: How is disability constituted in discourse in India and what does its genealogy look like?

1) profile the changing face of the discourse and so also what the concept has come to mean/ imply.
- Its long existence as an official category
- the NGO rhetoric and rights lingo
- its mobilization in the legal debates as a category of 'reservation' (quota to the Americans): education and employment issues

2)the relationship between development narrative (/project) and the current disability discourse. invocation of policy/ movements in the west- org reports, both international and local.

3)further reflection on point 2 will inevitably lead to the colonial links to the disab. discourse (inextricably linked to education discourse)

and Hacking (HISTORICAL ONTOLOGY)

Discourse is, then, to be analyzed not in terms of who says what but in terms of the conditions under which those sentences will have a definite truth value, and hence are capable of being uttered. Such conditions will lie in the "depth" knowledge of the time. The vision leads us far from material conditions of the production of sentences. (Hacking, 79)

...attempting to understand how objects constitute themselves in discourse must be a central topic, not exactly of the theory of knowledge, but of what I would call historical ontology. (Hacking, 98)

HISTORICAL ONTOLOGY

A concept becomes possible at a moment. It is made possible by a different arrangement of earlier ideas that have collapsed or exploded. A philosophical problem is created by the incoherencies between the earlier state and the latter one. (Hacking, 37)