The Wall as a Symbolic Hindrance

Muhammed Ajmal P K




The wall is, at least, a hindrance, if not the problem. It often masquerades as saviour who protects the inmates within which from enemies. However, on the one hand, it prevents one from preparing cognitive apparatus against the enemies. One may agree or disagree with this conceptualisation, if it refers to the physical wall. But, one’s side of the probability in disagreeing might be low, if it is about the symbolic wall. The thought wall or the cognitive wall, if I nomenclate so, is the impediment. When thoughts are transmural the actions get transcendental. Moreover, the ‘other’ comes to one’s cognitive purview which may widen the epistemic means, if not shifting the paradigm.

            The wall as an impeding entity has been explored in abundance. Explaining the object of apophatic philosophy, Boris Dombrovskiy considers the wall as a n incarnate prohibition. He states thus: Within a culture, which is understood as a complex of prohibitions, the phenomenon of wall is examined as an incarnate prohibition. The role of the wall is probed in a historical aspect, and fragment of wall as substrate in a fine art. Certain locus of walls as crossing of rays of direct and reverse prospects, jointly adopted a positive prospect. On the example of graffiti, the concept of negative prospect is introduced. It had been shown that an integral appearance in a negative prospect disintegrates to pieces. Destruction of image is explained by the influence of wall as an incarnated metaphysical prohibition. So interpreting phenomenon of the wall is the object of apophatic philosophy (Dombrovskiy).

Having said so, if anyone finds wall significant, that wall has to be an all-encompassing great wall. Otherwise, the mural shackles might continue to be epistemic barriers and thereby create an existential enigma.  


(Muhammed Ajmal P K is the HoD of the Department of English, MSS College of Arts and Science, Tharuvana. He is the Founder and Content Moderator of Transmural Tales.)


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