Arka Chattopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arka Chattopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arka |
| FAMILY NAME | Chattopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTOPADHYAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5897-878X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Collective Subject
The article aims to theoretically construct the collective subject from Lacan’s Borromean turn which contains a reflection on knotting, mathematical groups and the Freudian “single trait” translated as “unary trait.” Through his teaching of the One and its relation with the “unary trait,” not to mention the Borromean clinic, I will develop a Lacanian collective subject. From triadic knotting to generalized Borromean, we will see how the One turns…
Writing Care
In this paper, we analyze Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House (2019), focusing on care and corporeality, attending to the intricacies of its narrative form. We argue that Machado not only presents abuse, care, and corporeality as themes but also embeds them as integral elements shaping the form of the narrative. By doing so, she expands the formal possibilities of life writing, inviting readers to reconsider the intersections between…
Plastic Onto-Logic of Relation and Non-Relation
This article connects Ranjan Ghosh’s arguments on the plastic matter in The Plastic Turn (2022) with Catherine Malabou’s work on plasticity. It compares the logic of plastic matter with the notion of plasticity as not only giving and receiving of forms but also as decimation of forms. The article shows how the relation between plastic matter and plasticity encounters a dialectical tension when Malabou’s “destructive plasticity” as a logic of non-…
Introduction
Plastic is everywhere, all around us, and yet do we see it? What does the plastic gyre in the North Pacific tell us? Much like climate crisis, often considered intangible, plastic deposition on the surface of the earth is as much invisible as it is visible. In the “Introduction” to Lacan and the Environment (2021), Clint Burnham and Paul Kingsbury invoke the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s famous reference in Seminar XI to a sardine can floa…
A Conversation on the Plastic and Plasticity with Professor Catherine Malabou and Professor Ranjan Ghosh
Ectogenesis, Co-pregnancy and the Politics of Reproductive Labour in The Growing Season
This interview with the biophysicist and author Helen Sedgwick explores the politics of reproductive labour and co-pregnancy in her novel The Growing Season (2017). The conversation touches on the role of emerging reproductive technologies, like extra-uterine gestation or ectogenesis, and discusses how such technologies subvert heteronormal family structures by democratising the process of human reproduction. The interview explores the changing c…
The Cambridge Companion to the Poem
What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social a…
Ireland and India between Home and the World
This article charts world-making and home-formation as two connectors between Irish and Indian literature on their way toward becoming world literature. Home and world are conceptualized as flows while the idea of the path is seen as a synthetic bridge between them. The first part examines how Irish literature becomes world literature by studying two temporal encounters between Irish and Indian writers, between W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore …
Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd
Reviewed by: Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd: The Avant-Garde, Spectator-Ship and Psychoanalysis by Lara Cox Arka Chattopadhyay AFTERLIFE OF THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD: THE AVANT-GARDE, SPECTATOR-SHIP AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. By Lara Cox. Dramaturgies Vol. 37. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 216. The avant-garde introduces a break in the history of established aesthetic traditions, but its interruption becomes a norm and gets subsumed within the…
Is there a parallax in the mind? Samuel Beckett and distance in the psychic archive
This paper examines the speculative presence of a parallax in the mind in the works of Samuel Beckett through the psychoanalytic lens of a Real parallax in the psychic archive. Navigating through Lacan, Žižek and Derrida, it establishes the parallax as a tool to ascertain psychic distance. The parallax sets out to measure the psychic topos that ultimately yield immeasurability as the essence of its vistas. The article goes through some important …
Ontology of sound in Harold Pinter's radio drama
Can sound be an ontological index of existence? The paper examines this question of sound ontology in Harold Pinter’s radio drama. It foregrounds the ontological gap between linguistic and non-linguistic sounds in A Slight Ache (1959) to track how they solidify existence as a play of presence and absence. The sound problematic in A Slight Ache rests on a wordless character who is not soundless. The presence of such a character in the radio proble…
Nabarun Bhattacharya
The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the novel on dogs or those on petro-pollution and the m…
I Am Jack The Ripper, A Golden Eagle
In this essay I extract an ethic from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of “planetarity” in the context of world literature, which highlights the notion of transnational literary circulation. I argue for a planetary ethic of absolute otherness that interacts with the way a story travels across national borders. I take this dialogue through the Bengali-Indian writer Sandipan Chattopadhyay’s short story “Shonali Danar Igol” (“The Eagle with Gold…
The Lacanian What in the Beckettian Where
Exhausting the inexhaustible
When Ashish Avikunthak, the experimental Indian film director adapts Samuel Beckett’s 1965 ‘dramaticule’ Come and Go into his 2005 Hindi short film Antaral or Endnote, he unsettles the mathematically precise structure of Beckett’s play. Avikunthak plays around with the order of entries and exits of the three women who participate in the haunting transmission of an inaudible secret in Beckett’s play. And his playful rearrangements underline the fu…
Falsifying Beckett
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Falsifying Beckett
Exhausting the inexhaustible
When Ashish Avikunthak, the experimental Indian film director adapts Samuel Beckett’s 1965 ‘dramaticule’ Come and Go into his 2005 Hindi short film Antaral or Endnote, he unsettles the mathematically precise structure of Beckett’s play. Avikunthak plays around with the order of entries and exits of the three women who participate in the haunting transmission of an inaudible secret in Beckett’s play. And his playful rearrangements underline the fu…
The Lacanian What in the Beckettian Where
I Am Jack The Ripper, A Golden Eagle
In this essay I extract an ethic from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of “planetarity” in the context of world literature, which highlights the notion of transnational literary circulation. I argue for a planetary ethic of absolute otherness that interacts with the way a story travels across national borders. I take this dialogue through the Bengali-Indian writer Sandipan Chattopadhyay’s short story “Shonali Danar Igol” (“The Eagle with Gold…
Nabarun Bhattacharya
The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the novel on dogs or those on petro-pollution and the m…
Is there a parallax in the mind? Samuel Beckett and distance in the psychic archive
This paper examines the speculative presence of a parallax in the mind in the works of Samuel Beckett through the psychoanalytic lens of a Real parallax in the psychic archive. Navigating through Lacan, Žižek and Derrida, it establishes the parallax as a tool to ascertain psychic distance. The parallax sets out to measure the psychic topos that ultimately yield immeasurability as the essence of its vistas. The article goes through some important …
Ontology of sound in Harold Pinter's radio drama
Can sound be an ontological index of existence? The paper examines this question of sound ontology in Harold Pinter’s radio drama. It foregrounds the ontological gap between linguistic and non-linguistic sounds in A Slight Ache (1959) to track how they solidify existence as a play of presence and absence. The sound problematic in A Slight Ache rests on a wordless character who is not soundless. The presence of such a character in the radio proble…
Ireland and India between Home and the World
This article charts world-making and home-formation as two connectors between Irish and Indian literature on their way toward becoming world literature. Home and world are conceptualized as flows while the idea of the path is seen as a synthetic bridge between them. The first part examines how Irish literature becomes world literature by studying two temporal encounters between Irish and Indian writers, between W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore …
Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd
Reviewed by: Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd: The Avant-Garde, Spectator-Ship and Psychoanalysis by Lara Cox Arka Chattopadhyay AFTERLIFE OF THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD: THE AVANT-GARDE, SPECTATOR-SHIP AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. By Lara Cox. Dramaturgies Vol. 37. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 216. The avant-garde introduces a break in the history of established aesthetic traditions, but its interruption becomes a norm and gets subsumed within the…
The Cambridge Companion to the Poem
What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social a…
Writing Care
In this paper, we analyze Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House (2019), focusing on care and corporeality, attending to the intricacies of its narrative form. We argue that Machado not only presents abuse, care, and corporeality as themes but also embeds them as integral elements shaping the form of the narrative. By doing so, she expands the formal possibilities of life writing, inviting readers to reconsider the intersections between…
Plastic Onto-Logic of Relation and Non-Relation
This article connects Ranjan Ghosh’s arguments on the plastic matter in The Plastic Turn (2022) with Catherine Malabou’s work on plasticity. It compares the logic of plastic matter with the notion of plasticity as not only giving and receiving of forms but also as decimation of forms. The article shows how the relation between plastic matter and plasticity encounters a dialectical tension when Malabou’s “destructive plasticity” as a logic of non-…
Introduction
Plastic is everywhere, all around us, and yet do we see it? What does the plastic gyre in the North Pacific tell us? Much like climate crisis, often considered intangible, plastic deposition on the surface of the earth is as much invisible as it is visible. In the “Introduction” to Lacan and the Environment (2021), Clint Burnham and Paul Kingsbury invoke the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s famous reference in Seminar XI to a sardine can floa…
A Conversation on the Plastic and Plasticity with Professor Catherine Malabou and Professor Ranjan Ghosh
Ectogenesis, Co-pregnancy and the Politics of Reproductive Labour in The Growing Season
This interview with the biophysicist and author Helen Sedgwick explores the politics of reproductive labour and co-pregnancy in her novel The Growing Season (2017). The conversation touches on the role of emerging reproductive technologies, like extra-uterine gestation or ectogenesis, and discusses how such technologies subvert heteronormal family structures by democratising the process of human reproduction. The interview explores the changing c…
On the Collective Subject
The article aims to theoretically construct the collective subject from Lacan’s Borromean turn which contains a reflection on knotting, mathematical groups and the Freudian “single trait” translated as “unary trait.” Through his teaching of the One and its relation with the “unary trait,” not to mention the Borromean clinic, I will develop a Lacanian collective subject. From triadic knotting to generalized Borromean, we will see how the One turns…
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