Fascinating insights into the technics of digitalized propertization that is underway across rural and peri-urban India:

Excitedly anticipating this because as Zizek affirms in his blurb for Harvey's Story of Capital: [T]"His book is for everyone who wants to really understand the mess we are in, which means – it is for everyone."

Fascinatingly critical retheorization of southern urban': "Increasingly 'unprecedented' risks compel us to retheorize the South and what it means to think the “unthinkable” as a variegated politics of improvisation and duration mediated by force and resistance located through repair practices ..."

Prof. Jyoti Dalal, Asst. Prof. Chetan Anand and I are coordinating a ‘Weekly Reading Workshop’ on Lacanian philosopher/social theorist Alenka Zupancic's "What is Sex?" organised by RIG-6 'Philosophy of Education' & RIG-8 'Education and Marginal Groups' of the Comparative Education Society of India:

Sounds like a fascinating line up at my alma mater.

Attended launch of 'Across the Nala: A Queer Dalit Bahujan Zine of Stories from Delhi', an @urbanstudiesfoundation.org + Jindal Global University event sharing stories from marginalised geographies. Also heard a land acknowledgment for displaced villages in Lutyens Delhi! theprint.in/feature/arou...

Dr. Ori Simchen's paper called “Law” argued that meaning is shaped by intended function: “It illustrates why it’s important to have universities teaching subjects like philosophy or linguistics—anything that doesn’t have a very obvious application in the short term. It took 22 years for this ...”

PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

A clear geopolitical failure of democratic neocolonial-imperial states that the majority world has to now turn to militarized autocratic rule and powers (such as Russia's Wagner Group) to achieve self-determination and regional security without overtly oppressive defensive allies:

I appreciated this gifted article making the rounds everywhere (otherwise paywalled). On my course syllabi the past semester, I started having an AI policy, and this will definitely get added as reading for that. This explained the problems for electricity grid in clear way.

the grift will continue until the consultancies and ed-tech partners have destroyed every.single.public.university. "$51 million dollars. That’s how much money the UW System paid Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group between 2019 and 2023." www.wortfm.org/uw-system-sp...

Most heartening dimension of Gukesh winning the world chess championship, and of his strategy, is his explicit emphasis on psychological and physical conditioning, and how importantly Gukesh regards the role played by Paddy Upton, a non-chess sports coach (of cricket), in this. Thus: the 18th at 18!

TIL about the naming of the term 'algorithm'. A 12thC work by Central Asian Muslim scholar al-Khwārizmī introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and arithmetic to the West. Its preservation in Latin titled Algoritmi de numero Indorum (“Al-Khwārizmī Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning”) led to this name.

A reminder: looking for PhD project applications around 2 topics✨ 'Digital Futures of Physical Retail'(co-supervised w B Hracs) thomasdekeyser.com/s/Digital-Fu... 'AI geographies of human-animal relations'(co-supervised w @emmajroe.bsky.social) thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp... Links = details

It's this framing that lies at the center of our perennial question of freedom: “You ain’t free less me and the law say you free” (Warren Calvin's Ontological Terror, 2018, 24), as it then poses the problem of whether one sees law as the Other or not, and thus as capable of freeing oneself or not.

From 'living' under unregulated capitalism to 'dying' for it:

Secor & Anderson (2024) quite succinctly (re)define the intellectual crisis of our time: reconciling affect and ideology at mutual points of slippage to open new possibilities as "to even articulate the problem of the relation between the sensed and known requires a new conceptual vocabulary." (7)

Joined this new space for digitally-mediated dialogue on a wonderful day: World Philosophy Day. Quite apt indeed.