[silence] The Grand/petite narrative of Bharat , Part-III

[Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay]

Silence fiction 
The Meta/petite narrative of Bharat (Contd. Posting-5) 
(Summarized and  translated  version of a Bangla pseudo-novel, published in Kalodhvani, 13:1, October, 2005)

REITERATION 
Bharata the Matter had become reincarnated Bharat in kaliyuga¡K. Diachronic facts reappear in a genealogical synchrony¡K. 

CANTO-III: THE REMEDY 

MITRA¡¦S (RE)SEARCHINGS

Mitra, a former Anti-Psychiatrist (a la Laing)-turned Lacanian psychoanalyst, was searching Bharat¡¦s diary, threadbare notes and  even the search history and favorite items in the internet account of Bharat. And he found astonishing facts, Bharat collected large material on silence from the internet. He put asterisk marks on the Virginia University site on silence especially the celebration of the day of silence; he also gathered information about the use of the phrase ¡§conspiracy of silence¡¨ by Marx and Engels from the Marxist Archive. He referred to the Commission for Historical Clarification and its subsequent the Memory of Silence Document   of Guatemala. Was he internationalizing his individual silence? 

As reported by frustrated Pancajani, in the phase of gradual inclination towards silence and when Bharat  was disturbed by the local real estate developers as well as local party members, he  was then interested in silent music. Apart from listening to Rabindrasangit or Tagore¡¦s song and Indian Classical Songs, he was also interested in John Cage, No (-) Music of D. Schnebel and Gerd Zacher. He was collecting the minimalist white paintings of Robert Ryman and Rauschenberg.  Perhaps, he was suffocated with his discipline¡XLinguistics, a discipline on visible speaking only.   Bharat¡¦s different scrapped notes had revealed his claustrophobic existence within the mainstream Linguistics. 

BHARAT¡¦S DIARY 
(These notes were re-represented by Mitra in so-called ¡§rational¡¨ language and in chronological order for the therapeutic convenience.)
 
ƒÞ	My father was teaching me grammars of my mother tongue, Sanskrit and English in my school days, I had seen the blooded body of language. My language-body was ruptured by the fragmentary, constitutive, and prescriptive rules of the grammar. If any Homo sapiens can create infinite sets of sentences out of finite sets of words, why should we teach grammar? Is it for the ¡§sale¡¨-bration of a standard language controlled by the language-managers, language-police, and language-judges? 
ƒÞ	They are searching authentic meaning¡Xthey are etymologist; they are creating deterministic genealogy of arbitrary signs¡Xthey are Philologists. I had to cram all these trashes¡Xphonetic laws etc. Is it Linguistics as proposed by Saussure and Chomsky? I am getting obnoxious smell of stale words from my University¡¦s Linguistic Department. 
ƒÞ	I am reading Chomsky now. He negated the behavioral interpretation of language acquisition, but we are living within the prison/black box of behavioral control. I wish to ask some questions to Chomsky: From where does the ideal speaking subject speak? Where is the locus of ideal speaking subject? What is about the individual history of such ideal speaking subject? Does the outside influence in formation of inside Language Acquisition Device? What happens to transcendental Cogito (as postulated in Cartesian Linguistics), when it is subjected to the outside sociality? (Here I am inkling towards Psychoanalysis¡Xto the construct of ¡§psyche¡¨ rather than that of cogito as I am emphasizing on the society-psyche interface). The basic question is: what are the basic differences between the constructs like ¡§psyche¡¨ or Cartesian ¡§cogito¡¨? The transcendental cogito, as it is constructed in Chomskian linguistics, cannot escape internalization of the violent outside. The alchemy of inside and outside is crucial at the moment of constructing creative speaking subject. The Language Acquisition Device, the constructed inside, may or may not be crippled by the outside sociality. However, Chomsky did not bother to consider the influence of the outside at the moment of constructing and representing ideal creative inside.
 [Mitra thought that Bharat might be exemplifying/posing himself as an instance for his anti-Chomskian hypothesis: Crippled Creativity] 
(to be contd.) 
                                              DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=2503



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