roshan sahi: 2007

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Monday, December 10, 2007

.... the dimensions of society are analogous to the physical dimensions and include numbers of people, distance and time. Social physics deals with observations, processes and relations in these terms. The distinction between it and mathematical statistics is no more difficult to draw than for certain other phases of physics. The distinction between social physics and sociology is the avoidance of subjective descriptions in the former.

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.... emphasis is upon population potentials, product supply potentials, demographic energy, time accessibility and the like. In many cases all that has been necessary is to substitute such quantities as ‘number of people’, ‘size of income’, or ‘quantity produced’ for the mass in the equations of mechanics with time and distance retained as ‘social dimensions’ in the explanation of various regularities amongst social and economic phenomena.

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.... a focus is on the interdependencies of the self-organization of a central place system. The evolution of the system is deterministically modeled, but caters for the indeterminacy of instability when structural changes occur. “These considerations … introduce the concepts of ‘memory’ or ‘history’ into the ‘explanation’ of the state of a system, as well as an ‘uncertainty’ or ‘choice’ as to its future evolution”.

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Phenomenology, Science and geography
Spatiality and the human sciences

John Pickles

Thursday, December 6, 2007

collective consensus

…It follows, therefore, that it is only those collective needs, experienced by a whole community, which can persuade all the individuals of this group to operate the same synthesis at the same time. A group’s beliefs and faith are the result of everyone’s needs and unanimous desires. Magical judgments are the subject of social consensus; the translation of a social need under the pressure of which an entire series of collective psychological phenomena are let loose. This universal need suggests the objective to the whole group. Between these two terms, we have infinity of possible middle terms….

M.Mause
(A General theory of Magic: Pg. 157)

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

. Over the last year or so I have been thinking of a project that I would really love to do! This project is essentially based on the idea of going to various 'sites' of the statue of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar that can be identified in our urban - semi urban environs, and document the social dimension that we can read into as informative by this image being represented. The concept thought out: that images in our social context has a different role/dimension that comes into play. The image functions as a representation towards a mnemonic intervention in the social structure. Dr.B.R.Ambedkar's statues are found in many urban settings as a symbol that asserts a modernist viewing of a community: the new national identity to be recognized within our socio-economic and political system. My intention in this document is to establish a body of material; through photography and interviews of people in the location and social context within which an image such as that of Dr. Ambedkar: to be able to draw on the phenomena of cultural socio - political imageries in the Indian community environment. I would also like to study and have time to research in the field of social change in the parameters of public arena; and also the implication and interventions of imageries in these spaces.