Jan 24, 20188 minOn the “#Me Too” Movement | Prerna Anilkumarವಿಮೋಚನೆ or Vimōcane (Kannada). విముక్తి or Vimukti (Telugu). വിമോചനം or vimēācanaṁ (Malyalam). স্বাধীনতা or Sbādhīnatā (Bengali)....
Jan 24, 201819 minOn Human Forgiveness | Ingvar JohanssonForgiveness and religion All the great religions regard forgiving as a virtue. I take Gandhi’s famous saying “The weak can never forgive;...
Sep 18, 20174 minGoogle Maps: Drifting Through Post-Humanism and Away From Psychogeography? | Prerna AnilkumarPrerna Anilkumar If you are reading this on a screen you are already a cyborg. You are already a Post-human. (Take a minute and absorb...
Sep 14, 20174 minThe Dystopian Promise of the Fidget Spinner | Simon PorzakSimon Porzak “People today who still have time for boredom and yet are not bored are certainly just as boring as those who never get...
Sep 11, 20177 minWhy Nietzsche is not Responsible for Trump | Emmanuel AlloaEmmanuel Alloa This is a True Story The acclaimed TV series Fargo starts off exactly in the same way as the movie of the same name in...
Aug 9, 201715 minNon-Identity and Negation: “Identitarianism” & The Affirmation of Difference | Ross WolfeRoss Wolfe In a classic 1952 essay on “The Historical Invariance of Marxism,” Amadeo Bordiga identified three contemporary forms of...
Jul 29, 20175 minHinduism as Sanatana Dharma | Devansh JollyDevansh Jolly The term ‘Hinduism’ was first used in the 19th century by European writers (King, 1999), and therefore is a modern one,...
Jul 20, 201716 minOn the Social Media Ideology | Geert LovinkScraping the Social: “We are unknown to ourselves—and with good reason.” Friedrich Nietzsche—“Even the retards are starting to figure it...
Jul 12, 20177 minWho’s Afraid Of The Post-factual | Emmanuel AlloaEmmanuel Alloa Kellyanne Conway, the advisor to President Donald Trump, must be credited for having coined a new philosophical concept:...
Jun 15, 20179 minHindu Liberal or Conservative? Heartless or Brainless? | Sujoy SurSujoy Sur There are always certain objective rules of the society which are appropriate to the cultural and institutional trends of the...
Jun 1, 20174 minNotes on Patriarchy | Kirthi JayakumarKirthi Jayakumar Think patriarchy, and the first thought in any mind would pivot around its impact on women, whether in peacetime or in...
Feb 21, 20174 min5 Not-so-philosophical books to get you philosophically equipped| Sujoy SurSujoy Sur Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance This book is a tour-de-force. It is about the author and his son’s journey on a...
Feb 6, 20175 minThe Unbearable State of Being a Little Nice| Sujoy SurSujoy Sur There is an inherent inconsistency with which the society of today works. The inconsistency lies in the aspect of how we seek...
Feb 6, 20174 minThe Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Hegelian Right of Recognition (or the anti-pseudo Hobbes-Locke-RouSujoy Sur The international community was appalled when the photograph of a young Syrian boy, a refugee, whose boat had capsized in the...
Jan 23, 20173 minOn Non-Absoluteness, Hypocrisy and The IdealSujoy Sur The society has forever been, is, and forever will be impregnated with exceptions. There is no absoluteness, with the one...
Jan 23, 201712 minMorality and Governance in The Republic: The Good, the Bad, the Individual and the StateSujoy Sur Introduction The Republic is an exhausting read. The book, which is actually a dialogue divided across 10 books, is the most...