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The US at 250: The Promise and the Violence of the Blank Slate
This is a one-off essay marking the occasion of the semiquincentennial (that’s 250 in the common tongue).
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Planetarity Syllabus. Habitability, Part II: From the Outside In
I am going to take a break from writing.
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
Cognitive Sovereignty
This is a consolidated (and long) essay on the AI Polyconflict, but recast as Cognitive Sovereignty, in the same vein as the earlier consolidated essay…
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Planetarity Syllabus. Habitability, Part I: Framing the Issue
The Principle of Habitability
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
Polyconflicts #9. The AI Polyconflict, Part V: Cognitive Imperialism
Preface
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Planetarity Syllabus. Space, Part IV: Time, Space, and the Condition of Planetarity
One final essay to close out my coverage of Space as well as Time - next month, I will bring governance, time, and space together under the banner of…
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Planetarity Syllabus. Space, Part III: Alterity, and the Condition of Planetarity
Recapitulating the Condition of Planetarity
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
Polyconflicts #8. The AI Polyconflict, Part IV: The Energy-Compute Arbitrage
Preface
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Planetarity Syllabus. Space, Part II: Spivak and Morton, Impey and Winn, Latour
We encounter the alien in space more readily than in time.
 • Rajesh Kasturirangan
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