**6. Acknowledgments**

98 Social Sciences and Cultural Studies – Issues of Language, Public Opinion, Education and Welfare

This short poem is about the sadness of migration. Because of globalization, many fertile agricultural lands in India are being taken over by state and industrialists as Special Economic Zones (SEZ). Farmers are not getting enough compensation and they are forced to abandon their houses and their previous lives and head into poverty. Asked by Anjan Sen to comment on "Sorrow", I imagined the white cloud as a kind of letter, a walking stick or a kind of inverted path. Its ghostly quality contrasted strongly with the colour red, frequently associated with blood and passion in many cultures. The two black lines that cut across unevenly conveyed the idea of fragmentation, but also three-dimensionality, just as the black typography of the text. The irony in word "dear" and the mention of McLuhan's

In a dialogue with Sen, paradoxically enabled by the virtual environment of the World Wide Web social networks, he advised me to revise the mythical roots of the sound of the cloud and *Meghnad* in relation to the *Ramayana*. The idea of sending hidden messages in the form of a cloud made me return to the idea of loss and trauma. It would be interesting to explore to what extend the generic hybridism present in Anjan Sen's poems stage the crossings between rational and irrational experiences, both personal and social. It would be interesting to explore how the trauma of the postcolonial opens up in this dialogue of Sen and his illustrators and critics. In my unstable position of a reader/listener who tries to understand, a critic who tries to speak/write, and a semiotician who tries to discover, I encountered Sen. His desire to be both author and object of interpretation struck me. I see him as attempting to cross not just the limits of author/critic relationships, but also the boundaries of inter-texts, and of intermedial forms of representation. The dialogue between Sen and I, between Sen and his illustrators, readers and critics, seems to be pregnant with a desire to cut-across intersubjective positions and intercultural differences. A dialogue that

famous reference to the world as "Global Village" took on multiple meanings.

**Anjan Sen is** National Tagore Scholar, poet and artist, his works seek a return to the dialogue with others and with nature. Collections of poems in Bengali:

Kathabarta (conversation) 1974 PaathBharatbarsha (reading India) with illustration of Ganesh Pyne ,1981 Tin Bisswe Din Rattri (Days and Nights Over Three worlds) 1988 Goud Bochon (The Gaur Speech) 1989 GoudBochonKothonBisswo (The Gaud Speech) Bhando Bevando (From earthen pot to universe) 2002 Ghor Bahir (The room the outside) 2007 Chobir Kobita (Poems of the pictorial) 2010

For a complete list of his poetic works, essays, and links to webpages see:

http://www.ucm.es/info/siim/35.php http://www.ucm.es/info/siim/descargas/AnjanSenBriefCV.pdf

**Khandokar Ashraf Hossain** (Prof. of English at Dhaka University) is one of the leading literary figures in Bangladesh. He has translated many of Anjan Sen's poems. For more information see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khondakar\_Ashraf\_Hossain

**Amlan Das Gupta** (Prof of English at Jadapur University, Kolkatta) is a noted scholar of Classical and Biblical Studies, English Renaissance literature and an authority on Miltonic studies in India

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**Udaya Narayayana Sing** (Pro-Vice Chancellor, Viswa Bharati University, Linguist, poet, critic) A major linguist, translator, lexicographer & creative writer who has translated many of Anjan Sen's poems. For more information see

http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/at\_a\_glance/unscv.pdf

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**Ganesh Pyne** has illustrated some of Anjan Sen's poems. Pyne is known for his small tempera paintings, rich in imagery and symbols. He is one of India's foremost contemporary

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**Social Science as a Complex** 

**Economics as Example** 

*Virginia Commonwealth University,* 

David John Farmer

*USA* 

**and Pluri-Disciplinary System:**

Epistemic pluralism, including such perspectives as neuroscience, is a promising strategy for transforming the language games of social science – for putting any and all social sciences in what Wilson (1998) calls consilience, In other words, this paper addresses social science as a complex and pluri-disciplinary system. Epistemic refers to knowing, and pluralism can refer to a minimal strategy of more than one way. Rather than a minimal strategy, the paper recommends epistemic pluralism as a grand strategy that will be

I sympathize with those who want a massive restructuring of the social sciences. I applaud attempts in the United States of the National Science Foundation to work toward what was conceptualized as the lost unity (to the extent that it ever existed) of the social sciences. These National Science Foundation attempts, and earlier in the 1920s attempts by agencies like the Social Science Research Council, were largely unsuccessful. Sometimes they were counterproductive in increasing the number of social sciences, e.g., adding trans-disciplines. A major problem for a complete restructuring for the social sciences is that complete victory is unlikely: the fragmented organizational status quo is often even more inhibiting than the substantive. I don't think it is adequate to seek such broadening of the language game of social science primarily *organizationally* – seeking salvation through either a massive or a less massive top-down structure of disciplinary reform. I do see a grand strategy of epistemic pluralism as a feasible opportunity to avoid the organizational solution. If that leads eventually to re-restructuring (as it may), that is fine. But meantime, a more attractive aim (helped by the catalytic power of neuroscience) is shorter term – major language game

*"the frontiers of the individual sciences… are incessantly shifting and… there is no point in trying to define them either by subject or by method. This applies particularly to economics, which is not a science in the sense in which acoustics is one, but rather an aggregation of illcoordinated and overlapping fields of research in the same sense as is medicine" (Joseph* 

Epistemic pluralism – a grand strategy including neuroscience - is open to all the social sciences and to the social sciences as a whole, and this paper parallels what I have written

explained for individual social sciences as referring to a multiplicity of perspectives.

tweaking, with powerful programmatic results.

*Schumpeter, 1954, p. 10)* 

**1. Introduction** 
