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OMG this thread! 🤣 Post itself too funny and then - all the reactions! (The walrus post should be required reading for the CVs!)
Okay - but the part that stuck with me was the description of Pawar. He is, as you say, a Bakhtinian work of art. Or maybe, for the eponymous thrill of the thread - a Foucauldian example of praxis gone amok. If he goes completely silent, we could in fact write a Geertzian treatise on how his performance echoes the many traditions of Noh theatre with generous lashings of folkloric fool's wisdom.
But I would rather think this whole show is just a cry from the heart of some social commentator - modern society as sham - doctors who can't tie bandages, police who can't find enormous criminals standing in front of them with even more enormous knives, actors who never act, wives and husbands trapped on either side of huge pillow rekhas - the supreme irony is that the only social competence in the entire cast comes from Bittuji. From the social theory point of view, he may be the brave new paradigm we all await so desperately.
Or maybe it's just the shirts getting to me. Only time would tell.
[/QUOTEBittu is the male/female dom/sub protagonist/antagonist: blurring of all binaries, polarities and homogeneity. He is pomo polyphony in a lace shirt! He is tomorrow!
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