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I'm not really understanding why everyone needs to come to Bangkok, no matter there are cause of study or finding some jobs ,most people seems proudly with "BANGKOK" there might because Bangkok be the capital of Thailand ,but capital is not means the best of everything. In my opinion ,
ก รุ ง เ ท พ = ก ร ง (cage) เ ท พ
the cage one, the city that people cage theirself in every term, we all surrounding by cage that we believe there're safe. The city that people incarcerated deeply into folly thing ,arrogance that we are urbanity .We are losting and be misguided that we're already prosperously. Even technology lead the world or computer’s age ,Bangkok still be the same language ,the context of Bangkok never change, till language of Bangkok be attractiveness for everyone who need to come. So , there’s one question what’s the first idea if you thinking about Bangkok ?
I did not prefer to looks at the dark side but the dark side always be true.
for example about Thai's belief
The lucky number : Numerology enters the digital age
What's good luck ? a lucky number was be one of all representation of luck such as triple9 or 999999 likes most of numbers in daily life should got nine because 9 is very popular number that represent "luck",do not insultingly even present day is digital age or not , Thais still believe in the luck.
another idea is a Shrine, spirit house when we heard "spirit house”
Our imagination will be the traditional house one for an old man and angel who lives in and do not insultingly as well .There's also be the representation that everyone have seen before but according to nowadays is digital age.
there's a changing time ,representation of shrine is changed follow the modern trend. everybody got their own reason, there’s absolutely not insulting because only the design ,representation one that was change but the language is still.
That made me realized something that if I change only cover one , I means representation one ,so language and context is still be that means do not insultingly ?. Because for each person got different representation of the imagination of the same thing. its seem a bit contradiction about the belief and the outcome.For the spirit inside, the old man and angel,they might feel unfamiliar with the new design one
So, according to the modern shrine above that language is still be even the cover is new one, if I use the same theory bring into another thais belief “nang kwak” : the beckoning lady brings business and love .Also everyone got their own representation of “nang kwak”
As you can see, Japanese use cats instead of “nang kwak” for brings a lot of income into their shop so, There will be no matter if I change the representation one
So , all this the reason why I wonder is follow that we were teaching ,we have to got question all the time and be necessary to find any reason to support that what where when why and how ? there're the way we usually doing and ever thought it always right.
There’s all about belief got both reason and no reason to support ,the thing that we assume as it mean everything , it’s might be nothing at all .There’s occur for content and hold on in the correct way, the reason is no meaning is sometimes.
MS.Nina Yoo 50200314
Fascinating analysis! I would be interested to hear what you think about Bangkok as a city after learning about Agamben's theory of the Sacred and the Profane, as well as de Certeau's theory of spatializing practices in the city.
ตอบลบIn the end, after discussing the spirit houses and the Nang Kwak, it seems that your manifesto is challenging our belief is only that which is seen, or in the superficial. You are write. We are living in a hyperreal world where we substitute the sign for the real thing itself. As Baudrillard mentions, the iconoclasts get it; they destroy the image of a deity because they understand that it is the icon that allows the real to survive in a hyperreal world, thereby detaching itself from the real. Derrida applies this very phenomena to language, when he characterizes Ra's bestowing of the power of writing onto his son Thoth as an act that allows Thoth to kill his father, not in cold blood, but in detached meaning. Once Ra's ideas are inscribed in writing, the writing becomes the icon, the referent, to which people go to to find Ra, and not Ra himself. Your examples of the spirit house illustrate this: regardless of whether it is a new spirit house or old, it should simply be honoring the same being; however, because we believe in the model before the real, we are preoccupied with the form of the spirit house, or the form of the Nang Kwak.