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Cultural worker as "horizontal intellectual" in a militarized postcolonial site: Jacques Ranciere's "equality of intelligence" as an unconditional prerequisite

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posted on 2019-01-08, 19:07 authored by BRIAN PRIYARAJ JEGANATHAN
This study attempts to understand the role of the public intellectual through the artistic work of cultural workers in a militarized context - Sri Lanka. Today, it is the public intellectual who dominates the world, not the artist. So, artists’ work is not recognised as public intellectual work. But some critics argue the public intellectual is in crisis because knowledge is in crisis. So, using Rancière’s method of equality, I propose that some artists’ work related to this militarized context may help us with a new concept and way of life for public intellectuals, which I call a “horizontal intellectual”.

History

Campus location

Australia

Principal supervisor

Jennifer Bernadette Bleazby

Additional supervisor 1

Mary Lou Rasmussen

Year of Award

2019

Department, School or Centre

Education

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

Faculty

Faculty of Education