Raghav Agrawal
I think the key to synthesizing anything is to create a dialogue between those things, to facilitate interactions. To let the unique qualities of each be extended, amplified and moulded via dialogues. In that regard I think Bakhtin was onto something...
Which profession's day to day work involves blending concepts by questioning the delineation of meaning of words, their associations and relationships?
In the latest addition to his A-Z of Theory series, political theorist Andrew Robinson introduces, in a two-part essay, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. In part one, Robinson introduces Bakhtin's notions of Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia.
Bakhtin: Carnival against Capital, Carnival against Power
In the second and final part of his essay on Mikhail Bakhtin, political theorist Andrew Robinson reviews, and critiques, one of the central concepts in the Russian thinker's work: the Carnivalesque.
There are many mental moves that appear in my one-year journey of engaging with Lui’s theoretical sociology. I’d like to claim that this is a Supportive Collaboration.