Lalit Kala Contemporary 51

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I will begin by quoting Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Monica Narula:

"We all know the dialogue discourse between Yagnavalkya and Gargi in a section of the Upanisadic text (not like some chat rooms on the internet today), Gargi forgetting her "Woman" self, argued about the nature of "being" itself and asked what is the Web on which the World is woven? Re-configure a neo- upanishad, a new avatar of Gargi and Yagnavalkya, female and male, one, a maker of new codes, and the other, the keeper of the sacrificial flame of pure code: she is the software, a virus, free to roam and pirate Jeffery w The Legible C herself, he, on the other hand, stays hardwired, logged out and locked into himself. He peruses her relentlessly, but she runs away into the jungle of code again. The whole process begins again and the postulation takes place between the real self and the self that is virtual, in other words, the 'other' which is herself. Eventually, Yagnavalkya convinces her by saying that they are two halves of the same block, hardware and software, a man and machine and between them dangles the web of the world. The WORLD WIDE WEB. The mesh made of strings of code. Cyberia. Gargi was not to give up so easily. She asked Yagnavalkya: "Tell me since this whole world is woven back and forth on strings of knowledge, threads of code, what then is the net of code and knowledge woven on? Where on the earth is Cyberia? What is the cyber space? At this point Yagnavalkya tells her: Do not ask too many questions, Gargi, or your head will shatter apart." It is said then that: "There upon, Gargi fell silent." But we may take the clue from Gargi and begin by asking the question 'what is Space?'

Not so long ago, the word space had a strictly geometrical meaning. The idea it evoked was simply that of an empty area. In scholarly use, it was called Euclidean or infinite space. Mathematicians emerged as the proprietors of a science quite clearly detached from philosophy-a science, which considered itself both necessary and self-sufficient.