“For most of my life I was told that, due to fine motor skills that only women had, only women … More
Category: Western Philosophy
“The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, A Primer for How to be An Anti-capitalist | Book Talk & Discussion”
In this extract are three short speeches by Viyay Prashad (nephew of Brinda Karat, who I was sort of in … More
“Paradox of Tolerance”
“The Life You Can Save”
Not knowing what to do I would go and drown myself to avoid facing this dharma sankat 🙂 … but … More
Stepping Out of the Hobbesian World
We reach out to the “Other”In all our relationships;The Other keeps appearingAlmost only as the Other;This otherness bothers usAlmost in … More
Jacques Derrida On Love and Being
Derrida makes the distinction between the ‘who’ one loves – their singularity – and the ‘what’ – the specific qualities … More
“Have you seen God?” (Or) The Disservice(?) That Ramakrishna Paramahansa Did to Swami Vivekananda
That Naredranath Dutta (later to become Swami Vivekananda) went around asking “Have you seen God?” is itself a problem, though … More
In 2 Years AI Will End Capitalism–Ex-Google Officer
Mohammad Gawdat (Mo Gawdat), former Chief Business Officer at Google X, warns that artificial intelligence is about to replace all … More
Rick Roderick on Derrida — The Ends of Man
Lecture Notes: I. Richard Rorty may be viewed as an “Americanization” of Derrida: widely considered the postmodern thinkers (perhaps wrongly). … More
My Own Take On Being
Man always is in the present where the “trace” (to use or misuse a word/concept that Derrida keeps hearkening back … More
