ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book traces contemporary aspects of this problem in a number of domains: language, labour, technology, post-structuralist theory, political rhetoric, urban planning and the cultural logic of neoliberal globalisation as witnessed from the so-called ‘Silicon Valley of india’, the city of Bengaluru. It explores the prevailing and lapsed meanings of words, the rational and that which it excludes, the ‘isness’ of things and the indivisibility of body, mind and heart in order to think through some of the limitations and losses in how we have come to understand the world. It is a regrettable fact that the human subdivision has in large measure refused to abide by the facts of interdependent mutuality whether in relation to itself or to the rest of nature.
