30.1746, Qs: Can linguists solve (Non-/)Human Sufferings?

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Subject: 30.1746, Qs: Can linguists solve (Non-/)Human Sufferings?

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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:42:53
From: Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay [anekanta at gmail.com]
Subject: Can linguists solve (Non-/)Human Sufferings?

 
Can linguists solve the human predicament? Human and non-human Sufferings?
Can linguists identify un/meaning of life by deploying formal
pragmato-semantax?

Dedicated to the author of the book, Man's Search for Meaning

When I, keeping in mind the consequences of anthropogenic global heating, was
heading towards a non-manipulative dialogue-based money-signifier-less,
party-less  horizontally (dis)organized democratic humane kowm without any
materialistic utilitarian goal, 
I have faced the hegemonic domination of  Army/ Military/ Paratroopers’ 
Linguistics, Airborne Linguistics, Cryptolinguistics/Cryptologic(al)
Linguistics 
(much sale-brated “endangered language enterprise” and Corpus Linguistics
supply database for encoding and decoding crypto!) in the arena of
institutionalized funded organized academiocracy. All of them, through their
disciplinary technologies, are contributing to the death industry, i.e., 
simulated wars among neighbors. 
I also observed that some leisure class members of the linguist tribe are
engaged themselves in fragmenting language-object by deploying presupposed
closed models (as if models in the ramp, suffering from anorexia nervosa or
bulimia) and categoremes, i,e., anatomo-bio-political tools for penetrating
docile bodies of the subjects. What a case of redundancy! 

If I, ethico-politically speaking, do not wish to be a cog in such
disciplinary machinery, 
(a) may I be branded as a person with legal conflict for manufacturing such
hoax? 
(b) may ‘we’ abandon such violent enterprises?
(c) Instead, on the basis of priority, may I prepare myself to perform
socially necessary labor (from which I was forced to be alienated by obeying
degree-disease) in the midst of dissolution?   
(d) or may we accept or conform all these processes of subjection,
subjectification, and objectification? 

Now, being hurt by the high decibel cacophony, a case of non-affordance
(contrary to the affordance as proposed by the environmental psychologists) as
there is no possibility for conversing, I am taking my recourse to
non-conventional speech pathology through the indigenous theory of corporeal,
i.e., epimeleia heautou!  

Addendum 
When I, as a part of institutionalized funded organized academiocracy, was
surveying baulsof Bengal, I was asked by a faqir, ''What type of linguist are
you? Can't you establish dialogue? Can't you constitute polylogue? Can't you
participate in conversation without your manipulative tools?''
 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics



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