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Figuring out what to write about for the next few months
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Risk and want
A gruesome logic puzzle goes thus: A man has been condemned to death. His jailer knocks on his jail cell and says: you will be executed sometime this…
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Risky Business 2
Glexicon 2/N
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Risky Business
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January 2023

Mapping the Bubble
Introducing the Glexicon
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
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The Global Way of Knowing
If I were to summarize everything I’ve written in the last five years in one line, it would be: The Globe is the human bubble. We are trapped in the…
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Globe as an Organizing Principle
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Regime Change: Global Times
Kant argued that we don’t have direct access to the world; we can only grasp it as filtered by our mental capacities. While his argument was directed at…
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
The Regime Change thesis
There’s no shortage of myths of a harmonious past when all beings lived in peace. But the goods times never last do they? That glorious symmetry was…
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Linear and nonlinear exploration
Linear exploration goes thus: you step out of our house and walk to the village center. Maybe it takes you ten minutes. Maybe it takes you two hours…
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Why climate needs us to think beyond the climate
Let’s say you were a progressive in the late 18th and early 19th century. You were - rightly - appalled at the slave trade and enraged that governments…
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Extinction but not Rebellion
Trotsky wanted us to live in a permanent revolution, but instead, we live in a permanent extinction. Yesterday it was nuclear holocaust; today it is…
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