Archive - Ranganaut

A Planetarity Syllabus

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Jan 19 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

The Monkey Goes East

I ended last year’s metabology finale with a hint that I might be doing something different in the new year.

Jan 5 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

December 2025

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #18. Ideology vs. Metabology

From Abstraction to Protocol

Dec 22, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #17: The Strategy of Metabolic Development

Willy nilly, I have stumbled into a Glossary of Planetarity, with Metabolism providing a master key to reinterpreting some of the basic categories of…

Dec 15, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #16: The AI Bubble, Part 4. Intelligent Culture.

With AI, the financial bubble is easy to see: hyperscaler capex, a handful of firms carrying indices, and a narrative that capital has finally found a…

Dec 8, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #15: The AI Bubble, Part 3. AGI After Cognitive Capitalism

Artificial intelligence has captured today’s technological imagination.

Dec 1, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

November 2025

Bhumics. The Weekly Planet #14: The AI Bubble, Part 2. The Financial Bubble & Cognitive Capitalism

Cognitive Capitalism with AI Characteristics

Nov 24, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics. The Weekly Planet #13: The AI Bubble, Part 1. Three AI Bubbles.

When Sam Altman admits we’re in an AI bubble while simultaneously promising to invest a trillion dollars in data centers, something stranger than usual…

Nov 17, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics: PAPE, Part 4

This essay completes two heavy cycles - one on Metabolic Sovereignty and one on Philosophical Engineering.

Nov 13, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics: Weekly Planet #12. Metabolic Sovereignty Revisited

This week, I am back to metabolic sovereignty after a deepish dive into energy and compute sovereignty in the previous two weeks.

Nov 10, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics: PAPE, Part 3

In this week’s exploration of philosophical engineering, I explore the contours of the key objects that needs apprehension in the age of Planetarity…

Nov 6, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #11. On Compute Sovereignty

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to economic innovation and national security, control over computing resources is emerging as a…

Nov 3, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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